What is it about?
Indications on which patient to refer to specific pain facility are lacking. Pain-chronicity stage and outcome prognosis may be used for such aims. The Mainz pain-staging system (MPSS) classifies pain patients in three chronicity stages that respectively require more extensive management.
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Why is it important?
The I-MPSS showed satisfactory psychometric and validation properties. With adequate feasibility, it enables the screening of mixed non–cancer-pain outpatients in
Perspectives
The three chronicity/prognostic stages explored may be used as Indications for which patient to refer to increasing proficiency pain facility, respectively, and thus improve cost-effectiveness of chronic pain management.
Dr Boaz Gedaliahu Samolsky Dekel
Universita degli Studi di Bologna
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This page is a summary of: Psychometric properties and validation of the Italian version of the Mainz pain staging system as a tool for pain-patients referral selection, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, June 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12185.
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