Detection of Neuropathic Pain in End-Stage Cancer Patients: Diagnostic Accuracy of Two Questionnaires.

Eleftheria TzamakouAnastasios PetrouLouiza TefaVassiliki SiafakaEleni LaouPetros TzimasGeorgios PentheroudakisGeorgios Papadopoulos

Published in: Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain (2018)

At standard cutoff values, the DN4 and painDETECT questionnaires, despite having been translated to the patient's native language, failed to adequately discriminate between neuropathic and non-neuropathic pain in our end-stage cancer patients.

Keyphrases

neuropathic pain
spinal cord
spinal cord injury
psychometric properties
case report
autism spectrum disorder
loop mediated isothermal amplification
label free
real time pcr
sensitive detection