Health Outcomes Research in Medicine
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages e17-e28, July 2010

Validation of the Modified Brief Pain Inventory-Exploratory Form in Surgery Patients

  • Wen-Hung Chen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Health Outcomes Research, United BioSource Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding Author: Wen-Hung Chen, PhD, United BioSource Corporation, 7101 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 600, Bethesda, MD 20814.
  • ,
  • Kitty S. Chan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Tong J. Gan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
  • ,
  • Connie Chen, PharmD

      Affiliations

    • Pfizer, New York, New York
  • ,
  • Mani Lakshminarayanan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Pfizer, New York, New York
    • Current affiliation: Merck & Co., North Wales, Pennsylvania.
  • ,
  • Dennis A. Revicki, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Health Outcomes Research, United BioSource Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland

published online 17 May 2010.

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 The clinical trial data used in this work were provided by Pfizer, who supported and conducted the 2 clinical trials.

 The BPI and mBPI are copyrighted by Charles Cleeland at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the University of Texas, Houston. For those interested in using the mBPI-e in their research, permission should be secured from Dr. Cleeland, given that the mBPI-e was developed based on the mBPI instrument.

 Conflicts of interest: The work reported here was performed under contract for Pfizer by United BioSource Corporation. Authors WHC, RH, and DR work for the United BioSource Corporation, which performed this work under contract. Author KSC, faculty of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is a contracted consultant to United BioSource Corporation. TJG, faculty of the Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, is an external reviewer with no contractual arrangement with either United BioSource Corporation or Pfizer. CC is an employee of Pfizer. ML was an employee of Pfizer at the time this manuscript was written.

PII: S1877-1319(10)00002-9

doi:10.1016/j.ehrm.2010.04.001

Health Outcomes Research in Medicine
Volume 1, Issue 1 , Pages e17-e28, July 2010