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Published on: January 5, 2024
Is Chronic Pain a Disease in Its Own Right? Discussions from a Pre-OMERACT 2014 Workshop on Chronic Pain
Ann M Taylor1,2, Kristine Phillips3,4, Justin O Taylor3,4
1From Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; Barry Chiropractic Clinic, Cardiff; Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds and UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds, UK; SDG LLC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Medicine Service, VA Medical Center, Birmingham; Department of Medicine at the School of Medicine, and Division of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany; Swedish Medical Center and University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Division of Immunology/Rheumatology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA. Tayloram@cardiff.ac.uk.
Abstract:
At the pain workshop held prior to the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) 12 conference, chronic nonmalignant pain (CP) as a "disease" was discussed, in response to growing interest in this concept and in terms of the effect on the OMERACT Filter 2.0 framework. CP is often assessed as a unidimensional outcome measure; however, if CP is a disease, then outcome measures need to define the disease state and identify all its manifestations as well as its effects, as specified by Filter 2.0. The aim was to write a discussion piece, reflecting the workshop contributions and debate, as an important step in opening a dialogue around future OMERACT Filter 2.0 Framework developments.
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