Use of a Modified Comprehensive Pain Evaluation Questionnaire: Characteristics and Functional Status of Patients on Entry to a Tertiary Care Pain Clinic

BACKGROUND: With increasing knowledge of chronic pain, clinicians have attempted to assess chronic pain patients with lengthy assessment tools. OBJECTIVES: To describe the functional and emotional status of patients presenting to a tertiary care pain clinic; to assess the reliability and validity of a diagnostic classification system for chronic pain patients modelled after the Multidimensional Pain Inventory; to provide psychometric data on a …