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| R N JamisonSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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Validation of a screener and opioid assessment measure for patients with chronic painStephen F Butler
Inflexxion, Inc, 320 Needham Street, Suite 100, Newton, MA 02464 1594, USA
Pain 112:65-75. 2004..These reliability and predictive validity results suggest that the SOAPP is a promising step toward screening risk potential for substance misuse among persons with chronic pain...
Electronic diaries as a tool to improve pain management: is there any evidence?Lisa D Marceau
New England Research Institutes, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472, USA
Pain Med 8:S101-9. 2007....
Usefulness of pain drawings in identifying real or imagined pain: accuracy of pain professionals, nonprofessionals, and a decision modelRobert N Jamison
Department of Anesthesia and Psychiatry, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Pain 5:476-82. 2004..This study illustrates some of the benefits of computerized pain assessment and highlights the importance of not judging patients on the basis of one source of information...
Electronic diaries for monitoring chronic pain: 1-year validation studyR N Jamison
Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pain 91:277-85. 2001..Patients using electronic diaries preferred them to paper diaries and showed much higher rates of compliance and satisfaction over the 1-year trial...
Comparative study of electronic vs. paper VAS ratings: a randomized, crossover trial using healthy volunteersRobert N Jamison
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pain 99:341-7. 2002..Multivariate analyses showed equivalent stimuli to be rated much the same whether entered on paper VAS or PTC touch screen VAS (P < 0.0001). Support was found for the validity of the computer version of the VAS scale...
Opioid therapy for chronic noncancer back pain. A randomized prospective studyR N Jamison
Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 23:2591-600. 1998..Opioid therapy for chronic back pain was used without significant risk of abuse. However, tapered-off opioid treatment is palliative and without long-term benefit...
Maternal satisfaction and pain control in women electing natural childbirthS Kannan
Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Reg Anesth Pain Med 26:468-72. 2001..This study examines how epidural analgesia for labor influences maternal satisfaction in women who initially choose natural childbirth...
Perceived treatment helpfulness and cost in chronic pain rehabilitationS L Chapman
Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Clin J Pain 16:169-77. 2000..This article examines the perceived helpfulness of treatment components in comprehensive interdisciplinary pain management programs as they relate to cost...
Efficacy of dronabinol as an adjuvant treatment for chronic pain patients on opioid therapySanjeet Narang
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Pain 9:254-64. 2008..The results of our preliminary study suggest that dronabinol, a synthetic THC, may have an additive effect on pain relief...
Psychiatric history and psychologic adjustment as risk factors for aberrant drug-related behavior among patients with chronic painAjay D Wasan
Pain Management Center, Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02467, USA
Clin J Pain 23:307-15. 2007..To investigate the role of psychiatric history and psychologic adjustment on aberrant drug-related behavior among patients prescribed opioids for noncancer pain...
Validation of the short-form interactive computerized quality of life scale (ICQOL-SF)Robert N Jamison
Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02467, USA
Pain Med 8:243-50. 2007..To evaluate the concurrent validity of the short form of an interactive computerized quality of life (ICQOL-SF) measure for patients with chronic pain...
Pain assessment in patients with low back pain: comparison of weekly recall and momentary electronic dataRobert N Jamison
Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02467, USA
J Pain 7:192-9. 2006..This study demonstrates that recalled pain is as valid as momentary data for many patients...
Computer assessment and diagnostic classification of chronic pain patientsDavid A Provenzano
Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
Pain Med 8:S167-75. 2007..The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a computer assessment method to collect self-reports of pain that were then used in discriminant analyses to distinguish among chronic pain diagnoses...
Patients with chronic pain on opioid therapy taking dronabinol: incidence of false negatives using radioimmunoassaySanjeet Narang
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Opioid Manag 4:21-6. 2008..Serum blood toxicology screens are believed to be important to monitor compliance and to identify levels of illicit substances in patients taking opioids for their chronic pain...
Computerized dynamic assessment of pain: comparison of chronic pain patients and healthy controlsRobert N Jamison
Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pain Med 5:168-77. 2004..The aim of this study was to test the feasibility and discriminant validity of a dynamic computer-administered program for the assessment of pain...
Predicting aberrant drug behavior in patients treated for chronic pain: importance of abuse historyEdward Michna
Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 28:250-8. 2004..05). This study demonstrates that questions about abuse history and legal problems can be useful in predicting aberrant drug-related behavior with opioid use in persons with chronic noncancer pain...
The association between psychopathology and placebo analgesia in patients with discogenic low back painAjay D Wasan
Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02467, USA
Pain Med 7:217-28. 2006..We previously found that psychopathology is associated with increased placebo analgesia in this patient group...
Validation of the revised Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain (SOAPP-R)Stephen F Butler
Inflexxion, Inc, Newton, Massachusetts 02464, USA
J Pain 9:360-72. 2008..This study presents a revised version of the SOAPP-R that is empirically derived with good reliability and validity but is less susceptible to overt deception than the original SOAPP version 1...
Assessment of efficacy of long-term opioid therapy in pain patients with substance abuse potentialSrdjan S Nedeljkovic
Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Clin J Pain 18:S39-51. 2002..Finally, questions are posed for future investigations of the efficacy of opioid therapy for patients with chronic pain and a substance-abuse history...
Reliability and validity of an interactive computer method for rating quality of lifeGilbert J Fanciullo
Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
Pain Med 4:257-68. 2003..The purpose of this study was to describe the reliability and validity of an interactive computer method that assesses the quality of life of patients in chronic pain and healthy individuals...
Cluster analysis classification of SF-36 profiles for patients with spinal painGilbert J Fanciullo
Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 28:2276-82. 2003..A k-means cluster analysis of patients with spinal and radicular pain based on the SF-36 Health Survey scales...
Comment on Ballantyne and LaForge, Opioid dependence and addiction during opioid treatment of chronic pain. Pain 2007;129:235-55Robert N Jamison
Pain 132:218-9; author reply 219. 2007
Association of anxiety and depression with reported disease severity in patients undergoing evaluation for chronic rhinosinusitisAjay Wasan
Pain Management Center, Department of Anesthesia, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 116:491-7. 2007..We sought to determine the impact of psychiatric comorbidity on symptom density and resource utilization in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS)...
Development and validation of the Current Opioid Misuse MeasureStephen F Butler
Inflexxion, Inc, Newton, MA 02464, USA
Pain 130:144-56. 2007..The COMM was found to have promise as a brief, self-report measure of current aberrant drug-related behavior. Further cross-validation and replication of these preliminary results is pending...
Dealing with difficult patients in your pain practiceAjay D Wasan
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Reg Anesth Pain Med 30:184-92. 2005..Issues of comorbid psychopathology, hostility, suicidality, aberrant drug behavior, and chronic noncompliance are discussed. Specific recommendations are also given of the best ways to manage patients with difficult behavior...
Iatrogenic addiction in patients treated for acute or subacute pain: a systematic reviewAjay D Wasan
Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Opioid Manag 2:16-22. 2006..1 percent)...
Urine toxicology screening among chronic pain patients on opioid therapy: frequency and predictability of abnormal findingsEdward Michna
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Clin J Pain 23:173-9. 2007..To examine the incidence of abnormal urine toxicology screening among chronic pain patients prescribed opioids for their pain and to relate these results to patient descriptors and type, number, and dose of prescribed opioids...
Validation and clinical application of the Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain (SOAPP)Hammam Akbik
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 32:287-93. 2006..Preliminary support was found for the internal reliability and predictive validity of the SOAPP. Current limitations of the SOAPP and future directions for change are discussed...
Neuropsychological effects of long-term opioid use in chronic pain patientsRobert N Jamison
Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Pain Symptom Manage 26:913-21. 2003....
