Tools & Measures for Researchers
Measures from the PMC Phenotypes Work Group
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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...
Read More >>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...
Read More >>NSCAP
The NSCAP assesses the frequency, targeted outcome (e.g., “to manage pain”), perceived effectiveness, and setting of these approaches.
Read More >>Pain Chronicity Threshold
The International Association for the Study of Pain and ICD diagnoses of chronic pain use a minimum 3- month threshold...
Read More >>Pain Intensity Threshold
In surveys of patients with chronic pain, pain intensity is described as a critically important dimension of the pain experience...
Read More >>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...
Read More >>PEG
The PEG is a brief, convenient, patient-reported pain outcome measure that is derived from the Brief Pain Inventory.
Read More >>PHQ-2
The Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2) is a widely used, patient-reported, 2-item screening measure for depression.
Read More >>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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