PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alessandro Chiarotto
AU  - Ulrike Kaiser
AU  - Ernest Choy
AU  - Robin Christensen
AU  - Philip G.  Conaghan
AU  - Mary Cowern
AU  - Michael Gill
AU  - Maarten de Wit
AU  - Elizabeth Gargon
AU  - Ben Horgan
AU  - Jamie J.  Kirkham
AU  - Lee S.  Simon
AU  - Jasvinder A.  Singh
AU  - Peter Tugwell
AU  - Dennis C.  Turk
AU  - Philip J.  Mease
TI  - Pain Measurement in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases: Where To Go from Here? Report from a Special Interest Group at OMERACT 2018
AID  - 10.3899/jrheum.181099
DP  - 2019 Apr 01
TA  - The Journal of Rheumatology
PG  - jrheum.181099
4099  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2019/05/13/jrheum.181099.short
4100  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2019/05/13/jrheum.181099.full
AB  - Objective Establishing a research agenda on standardizing pain measurement in clinical trials in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD). Methods Discussion during a meeting at the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) 2018, prepared by a systematic review of existing core outcome sets and a patient online survey. Results Several key questions were debated: Is pain a symptom or a disease? Are pain core (sub)domains consistent across RMD? How to account for pain mechanistic descriptors (e.g., central sensitization) in pain measurement? Conclusion Characterizing and assessing the spectrum of pain experience across RMD in a standardized fashion is the objective of the OMERACT Pain Working Group.