Patient-centered perspective on treatment outcomes in chronic pain.

Objective: To define patient-determined success criteria for fibromyalgia and back pain treatment across four outcome domains: pain, fatigue, emotional distress, interference with daily activities.

Design: Retrospective correlational clinical sample design.

Setting: Tertiary care clinics at health science center.

Sex differences in prior pain experience.

Unlabelled: Sex differences in clinical and experimental pain experiences are well documented. However, there has been little work investigating men's and women's experiences with common painful events. This study examined sex differences in the nature and intensity of common pain experiences.

Patient-centered outcome criteria for successful treatment of facial pain and fibromyalgia.

Aims: To define treatment success from the facial pain and fibromyalgia pain patient perspective across four domains (pain, fatigue, emotional distress, interference with daily activities) through the use of the Patient-Centered Outcomes (PCO) Questionnaire.

Methods: Participants included 53 facial pain (46 women, seven men) and 52 fibromyalgia (49 women, three men) patients who completed the PCO Questionnaire. The PCO assesses four relevant domains of chronic pain: pain, fatigue, distress, and interference in daily activities.