Tools & Measures for Researchers
A key objective of the Pain Management Collaboratory (PMC) is to encourage shared learning and data and the identification and optimization of best practices in the design and enactment of the PMC pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs). In this context, the PMC community has come together to develop a core set of measures of key phenotypes and outcomes that can be applied across the PCTs. These measures were comprehensively reviewed and recommended by the PMC Phenotypes and Outcomes Work Group and are endorsed by the PMC Steering Committee, which includes the PMC3 leadership, representatives from the sponsoring agencies, and the principal investigators of the PCTs.
Measures from the PMC Phenotypes Work Group
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Opioid Use
This is a curated list of comprehensive codes identifying targeted non-IV administered opioid medications. Recommendations specify how Electronic Health Record...
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ICD 9/ICD 10 Codes
The Musculoskeletal Disorders MSD Cohort was created in 2016 to characterize variation in pain, comorbidities, treatment, and outcomes among patients...
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Healthcare Utilization
Healthcare Utilization recommendations provide for calculating summary counts of both inpatient and outpatient healthcare utilization. VA clinics that provide outpatients...
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High Impact Chronic Pain Recommendations
High Impact Chronic Pain (HICP) is defined as the presence of pain on at least half of days in the...
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Substance Use (SUD) Measures
We compared operational definitions (ICD9/10) that targeted a non-VA research setting (PROUD), a VA research setting (Seal et al., 2019)...
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NSCAP
The NSCAP assesses the frequency, targeted outcome (e.g., “to manage pain”), perceived effectiveness, and setting of these approaches.
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Pain Management Collaboratory Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Measures
The 5-item PMC COVID-19 measure assesses five potential domains of pandemic impact: access to healthcare, social support, finances, ability to...
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Pain Intensity Threshold
In surveys of patients with chronic pain, pain intensity is described as a critically important dimension of the pain experience...
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Pain Chronicity Threshold
The International Association for the Study of Pain and ICD diagnoses of chronic pain use a minimum 3- month threshold...
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PHQ-2
The Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) is a widely used, patient-reported, 2-item screening measure for depression.
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AUDIT-C
The Alcohol Disorders Identification Test-Concise (AUDIT-C) is a brief alcohol use disorder screening instrument that reliably identifies individuals who are...
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PEG
The PEG is a brief, convenient, patient-reported pain outcome measure that is derived from the Brief Pain Inventory.
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