Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Exploring alternative approaches to routine outpatient pain screening.
To evaluate potential alternatives to the numeric rating scale (NRS) for routine pain screening. ⋯ Alternative single or combined pain screening strategies assessing pain-related bother may improve routine pain detection.
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Multicenter Study
Barriers and facilitators to chronic pain self-management: a qualitative study of primary care patients with comorbid musculoskeletal pain and depression.
To identify barriers and facilitators to self-management of chronic musculoskeletal pain among patients with comorbid pain and depression. ⋯ Future research is needed to confirm these findings and to design interventions that capitalize on the facilitators identified while at the same time addressing the barriers to pain self-management.