Chronic pain is a public health concern affecting 20–30% of the population of Western
countries. Although there have been many scientific advances in the understanding of the …

Recording of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) enables direct measurement of the
experiences of patients with cancer. In the past decade, the use of PROs has become a …

Objective: To compare targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) to “standard treatment” of
neuroma excision and burying into muscle for postamputation pain. Summary Background …

Background A majority of the nearly 2 million Americans living with limb loss suffer from
chronic pain in the form of neuroma-related residual limb and phantom limb pain (PLP) …

OBJECTIVES: Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are essential when evaluating many new
treatments in health care; yet, current measures have been limited by a lack of precision …

The authors report on the development and calibration of item banks for depression, anxiety,
and anger as part of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System …

Interest in measuring patient-reported outcomes has increased dramatically in recent
decades. This has simultaneously produced numerous assessment options and confusion …

Abstract The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) is
an NIH Roadmap initiative devoted to developing better measurement tools for assessing …

The definition of pain24 promulgated by the IASP (Box 1) has provided a powerful
conceptual anchor for scientific and health care professional advances in understanding the …

Over the past 30 years, item response theory (IRT) measurement models and related
methods, such as differential item functioning, scale linking, and computerized adaptive …