The Clinical journal of pain
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The study aimed to validate a new, multidimensional, multilingual instrument (the WHOQOL-100) for assessing QOL in chronic pain patients. ⋯ The WHOQOL-100 indicates significant improvements to QOL for those entering a PMP and is validated for the clinical assessment of chronic pain patients and for use in multi-national clinical trials, clinical governance and audit.
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Description of the specific physical and psychological problems associated with sexual activity in patients with chronic pain. ⋯ There is a high prevalence of sexual difficulties in patients with chronic pain attending treatment, nearly double that of a general UK survey. These difficulties are not simply related to mood or disability. The range of problems and patients' expressed preferences for help suggest that multidisciplinary intervention is required.
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Facial expression of children receiving immunizations: a principal components analysis of the child facial coding system.
To identify the structure of facial reaction to procedural pain and to determine the subset of facial actions that best describe the response. ⋯ These results provide a preliminary indication that the Child Facial Coding System can be reduced to components that reflect several aspects of children's acute pain experience and predict self-reports and observer reports of children's pain.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Eutectic mixture of local anesthetics reduces pain during intravenous catheter insertion in the pediatric patient.
The objective of this study was to explore the relation between the application of a mixture of lidocaine/prilocaine cream (eutectic mixture of local anesthetics [EMLA]) before intravenous cannula insertion and perceived pain in the pediatric patient. ⋯ The authors conclude that a topical preparation of lidocaine/prilocaine significantly reduces children's pain during intravenous cannula insertion when applied to an intact dermal layer of the skin and that this effect occurs within 45 minutes.
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This study was designed to investigate whether Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type I (CRPS I) could be linked to any previous infection. ⋯ In this study we found a significantly higher seroprevalence of Parvovirus B19 in CRPS I and this is most striking in lower extremity CRPS I patients. Further serologic research in other geographic areas is needed to provide additional information about a potential role of Parvovirus B 19 or other microorganisms in the etiopathogenesis of CRPS I.