Quality assurance for Quantitative Sensory Testing laboratories: Development and validation of an automated evaluation tool for the analysis of declared healthy samples

Pain

Volumn 156, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2423-2430

  Vollert, Jan ^a,b   Mainka, Tina ^a,c   Baron, Ralf ^d   Enax Krumova, Elena K ^a   Hüllemann, Philipp ^d   Maier, Christoph ^a   Pfau, Doreen Barbara ^b   Tölle, Thomas ^e   Treede, Rolf Detlef ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain; Healthy subjects; Laboratory certification; Neuropathic pain; Quality assurance; Quantitative Sensory Testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE SENSORY TESTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; VALIDATION STUDY; AGED; ALGORITHM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HYPERALGESIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYNEUROPATHIES; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TOUCH; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROMES; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POLYNEUROPATHIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOSENSING; TOUCH; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962100970     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000300     Document Type: Article

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