Agreement between electronic medical record-based and self-administered pain numeric rating scale: Clinical and research implications

Medical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 245-250

  Goulet, Joseph L ^a,b   Brandt, Cynthia ^a,b   Crystal, Stephen ^c   Fiellin, David A ^b   Gibert, Cynthia ^d   Gordon, Adam J ^e   Kerns, Robert D ^a,b   Maisto, Stephen ^f   Justice, Amy C ^a,b  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic medical records; pain screening; veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NUMERIC RATING SCALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84874108901     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318277f1ad     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Shi Q, Langer G, Cohen J, et al. People in pain: how do they seek relief? J Pain. 2007;8:624-636.
2. National Pain Management Coordinating Committee. Pain as the 5th Vital Sign Toolkit, revised edition. 2000. Available at: http://www.va.gov/ PAINMANAGEMENT/docs/TOOLKIT.pdf. Accessed October 30, 2012.
3. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Improving the Quality of Pain Management through Measurement and Action. Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Department of Publications, Joint Commission Resources, Inc Ref Type: Serial (Book, Monograph); 2003.
4. Breivik H, Borchgrevink PC, Allen SM, et al. Assessment of pain. Br J Anaesth. 2008;101:17-24.
5. Jensen MP, Karoly P, Braver S. The measurement of clinical pain intensity: a comparison of six methods. Pain. 1986;27:117-126.
6. Breivik EK, Bjornsson GA, Skovlund E. A comparison of pain rating scales by sampling from clinical trial data. Clin J Pain. 2000;16:22-28.
7. Lorenz KA, Krebs EE, Bentley TG, et al. Exploring alternative approaches to routine outpatient pain screening. Pain Med. 2009; 10:1291-1299.
8. Department of Veterans Affairs. Pain management. VHA Directive 2009-053. October 28, 2009. Available at: http://www.va.gov/painma nagement/docs/ vha09paindirective.pdf. Accessed October 30, 2012.
9. Department of Veterans Affairs Statistics at a Glance. http://www.va. gov/vetdata/index.asp, Accessed October 30, 2012.
10. McDonald CJ. Quality measures and electronic medical systems. JAMA. 1999;282:1181-1182.
11. Ruau D, Liu LY, Clark JD, et al. Sex differences in reported pain across 11,000 patients captured in electronic medical record. J Pain. 2012;13:228-234.
12. Haskell SG, Ning Y, Krebs E, et al. Prevalence of painful musculoskeletal conditions in female and male veterans in 7 years after return from deployment in operation enduring freedom/operation iraqi freedom. Clin J Pain. 2011;28:163-167.
13. Krebs EE, Carey TS, Weinberger M. Accuracy of the pain numeric rating scale as a screening test in primary care. J Gen Intern Med. 2007;22:1453-1458.
14. Lorenz KA, Sherbourne CD, Shugarman LR, et al. How reliable is pain as the fifth vital sign? J Am Board Fam Med. 2009;22:291-298.
15. Kroenke K, Bair M, Damush T, et al. Stepped Care for Affective Disorders and Musculoskeletal Pain (SCAMP) study: design and practical implications of an intervention for comorbid pain and depression. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2007;29:506-517.
16. Rosenblum A, Joseph H, Fong C, et al. Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among chemically dependent patients in methadone maintenance and residential treatment facilities. JAMA. 2003;289:2370-2378.
17. Lew HL, Otis JD, Tun C, et al. Prevalence of chronic pain, posttraumatic stress disorder, and persistent postconcussive symptoms in OIF/OEF veterans: polytrauma clinical triad. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2009;46:697-702.
18. Marcus KS, Kerns RD, Rosenfeld B, et al. HIV/AIDS-related pain as a chronic pain condition: implications of a biopsychosocial model for comprehensive assessment and effective management. Pain Med. 2000;1:260-273.
19. Tsao JC, Soto T. Pain in persons living with HIV and comorbid psychologic and substance use disorders. Clin J Pain. 2009;25:307-312.
20. Hewitt DJ, McDonald M, Portenoy RK, et al. Pain syndromes and etiologies in ambulatory AIDS patients. Pain. 1997;70:117-123.
21. Krein SL, Heisler M, Piette JD, et al. The effect of chronic pain on diabetes patients' self-management. Diabetes Care. 2005;28:65-70.
22. Justice AC, Dombrowski E, Conigliaro J, et al. Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS): overview and description. Med Care. 2006;44(8 suppl 2):S13-S24.
23. Justice AC, Erdos J, Brandt C, et al. The veterans affairs healthcare system: a unique laboratory for observational and interventional research. Med Care. 2006;44(8 suppl 2):S7-S12.
24. Druss BG, Rosenheck RA. Locus of mental health treatment in an integrated service system. Psychiatr Serv. 2000;51:890-892.
25. Fishman S, Ballantyne J, Rathmell JP, et al. Bonica's Management of Pain. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2010.
26. Tan G, Jensen MP, Thornby JI, et al. Categorizing pain in patients seen in a veterans health administration hospital: pain as the fifth vital sign. [References]. Psychol Serv. 2008;3:239-250.
27. Mularski RA, White-Chu F, Overbay D, et al. Measuring pain as the 5th vital sign does not improve quality of pain management. J Gen Intern Med. 2006;21:607-612.
28. Gironda RJ, Clark ME, Massengale JP, et al. Pain among veterans of operations enduring freedom and iraqi freedom. Pain Med. 2006;7:339-343.
29. Fleiss JL. Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions. New York: Wiley; 1981.
30. Hosmer DW, Lemeshow S. Applied Logistic Regression. New York: John Wiley & Sons; 2000.
31. Zulman DM, Kerr EA, Hofer TP, et al. Patient-provider concordance in the prioritization of health conditions among hypertensive diabetes patients. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25:408-414.
32. Hooshyar D, Goulet J, Chwastiak L, et al. Time to depression treatment in primary care among HIV-infected and uninfected veterans. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25:656-662.
33. Proctor EK, Hasche L, Morrow-Howell N, et al. Perceptions about competing psychosocial problems and treatment priorities among older adults with depression. Psychiatr Serv. 2008;59:670-675.
34. Todd KH, Samaroo N, Hoffman JR. Ethnicity as a risk factor for inadequate emergency department analgesia. JAMA. 1993;269: 1537-1539.
35. Bernabei R, Gambassi G, Lapane K, et al. Management of pain in elderly patients with cancer. JAMA. 1998;279:1877-1882.
36. Green CR, Anderson KO, Baker TA, et al. The unequal burden of pain: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in pain. Pain Med. 2003;4: 277-294.
37. Kizer KW, Demakis JG, Feussner JR. Reinventing VA health care: systematizing quality improvement and quality innovation. Med Care. 2000;38(6 suppl 1):16-17.
38. Desai MM, Rosenheck RA, Craig TJ. Case-finding for depression among medical outpatients in the Veterans Health Administration. Med Care. 2006;44:175-181.
39. Choinière M, Melzack R, Girard N, et al. Comparisons between patients' and nurses' assessment of pain and medication efficacy in severe burn injuries. Pain. 1990;40:143-152.
40. Goulet JL, Erdos J, Kancir S, et al. Measuring performance directly using the veterans health administration electronic medical record: a comparison with external peer review. Med Care. 2007;45: 73-79.
41. Craig KD, Prkachin KM, Grunau RE. The facial expression of pain. In: Dennis C, Turk RM, eds. Handbook of Pain Assessment. Guilford Press, NYC: 2010:117-133.
42. Mehta SS, Siegler EL, Henderson CR Jr, et al. Acute pain management in hospitalized patients with cognitive impairment: a study of provider practices and treatment outcomes. Pain Med. 2010;11:1516-1524.
43. Shega JW, Paice JA, Rockwood K, et al. Is the presence of mild to moderate cognitive impairment associated with self-report of noncancer pain? A cross-sectional analysis of a large populationbased study. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2010;39:734-742.