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Does Classification of Persons with Fibromyalgia into Multidimensional Pain Inventory Subgroups Detect Differences in Outcome after a Standard Chronic Pain Management Program?
Author(s) -
Martin L. Verra,
Felix Angst,
Roberto Brioschi,
Susanne Lehmann,
Francis J. Keefe,
J. Bart Staal,
Rob A. de Bie,
André Aeschlimann
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
pain research and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.702
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1918-1523
pISSN - 1203-6765
DOI - 10.1155/2009/137901
Subject(s) - fibromyalgia , chronic pain , physical therapy , outcome (game theory) , medicine , pain management , physical medicine and rehabilitation , mathematical economics , mathematics
The present study aimed to replicate and validate the empirically derived subgroup classification based on the Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) in a sample of highly disabled fibromyalgia (FM) patients. Second, it examined how the identified subgroups differed in their response to an intensive, interdisciplinary inpatient pain management program.

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