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. 2013 May;14(5):730-5.
doi: 10.1111/pme.12114. Epub 2013 Apr 11.

Brief, self-report fibromyalgia screener evaluated in a sample of chronic pain patients

Dawn A Marcus  1 , Cheryl Bernstein, Kara L Albrecht
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Brief, self-report fibromyalgia screener evaluated in a sample of chronic pain patients

Dawn A Marcus et al. Pain Med. 2013 May.

Abstract

Objective: To validate a self-report fibromyalgia screener in a chronic pain population.

Design: Adults with chronic pain were evaluated with a six-item, self-report fibromyalgia screening tool based on revised American College of Rheumatology (ACR) fibromyalgia diagnostic criteria, with fibromyalgia diagnosed when patients experienced chronic pain and scored ≥13 on the ACR fibromyalgia symptom severity scale. Patients were independently assigned clinical diagnoses by treating clinicians.

Setting: University-based, tertiary care pain clinic.

Subjects: Three hundred thirty-seven mixed chronic pain patients.

Results: Agreement between the clinical diagnosis and screener diagnosis was good (P < 0.001), with 76% sensitivity and 82% specificity.

Conclusion: A self-administered, brief fibromyalgia screening questionnaire can effectively identify chronic pain patients who will likely have clinical fibromyalgia.

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conflicts of interest:

The authors have no conflicts of interest or no competing financial interests to report.

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