Pain Measurement in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: Where To Go from Here? Report from a Special Interest...

Alessandro Chiarotto^1,2, Ulrike Kaiser^3,4, Ernest Choy^3,4+13

• ¹From the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam University Medical Centre (VUmc); VUmc, Department of Medical Humanities, Amsterdam Public Health (APH), Amsterdam; Department of General Practice, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Comprehensive Pain Center, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Medical Faculty of the Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany; CREATE Centre, Section of Rheumatology, Division of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University, Cardiff; Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds; UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds; Versus Arthritis, Patron Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall, Chesterfield; MRC North West Hub for Trials Methodology Research, Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Musculoskeletal Statistics Unit, The Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen; The Rheumatology Research Unit, Department of Rheumatology, Odense University Hospital; Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Dragon Claw (Website for patients with rheumatic disease), New South Wales, Australia; Bingo and Fundraising Promotions, Mal Atwell Leisure Group, Willetton, Australia; SDG LLC, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Medicine Service, VA Medical Center; Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Schools of Medicine and Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington; Rheumatology Research Swedish-Providence-St. Joseph Health Systems; University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA; Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. a.chiarotto@vu.nl.+3