A Functional Pain Scale to Improve the Patient Experience

The Guthrie Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain Measurement

Treatments: Other: Pain measurement using 3 scales

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04124289

1906-25

Details and patient eligibility

About

This will be an observational cohort study to evaluate pain measurement after surgery using a new functional pain scale.

Full description

Patients admitted for orthopedic surgery may take part in this research. Participants will be assessed using three different pain scales: numeric rating scale (NRS), FACES pain scale and a new functional pain scale (FPS).

Enrollment: 49 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Completed orthopedic (hip or knee) surgery
• English as primary language and able to read
• Low risk as assessed by Opioid Risk Assessment Tool (ORAT)
• No history of opioid abuse
• Patients with a diagnosis of chronic pain other than the scheduled hip or knee meeting the above criteria may be included.

Exclusion criteria

• Previous diagnosis of cognitive impairment

Trial design

49 participants in 1 patient group

Pain post surgery

Description:

Patients who have completed surgery will be assessed with three types of pain scales. A new pain scale, a functional pain scale (FPS), will be compared to two pain scales that are routinely used: the FACES pain scale and the numeric rating scale (NRS).

Treatment:

Other: Pain measurement using 3 scales