Establishing a common metric for self-reported pain: linking BPI Pain Interference and SF-36 Bodily Pain Subscale scores to the PROMIS Pain Interference metric

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2305-2318

  Cook, Karon F ^a   Schalet, Benjamin D ^a   Kallen, Michael A ^a   Rutsohn, Joshua P ^a   Cella, David ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrument calibration equivalency among scales; Item response theory; Pain; Pain measurement; Patient outcome assessment; Psychometric methods scaling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY PAIN INTERFERENCE SUBSCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOME MEASUREMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF REPORT; SHORT FORM 36; SHORT FORM 36 BODILY PAIN SUBSCALE; AGED; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84941417611     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: 15732649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-015-0987-6     Document Type: Article

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