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Brief Pain Inventory

The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) is a concise, validated self-report instrument developed by Cleeland and Ryan beginning in 1994 to measure the severity and functional impact of pain in patients with cancer and chronic pain conditions. The BPI-Short Form comprises 11 items assessing pain severity and interference with daily activities, enabling rapid multidimensional pain assessment across diverse clinical populations.

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Brief Pain Inventory - Short Form
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / health-services
  • Cleeland, C. S., & Ryan, K. M. (1994). Pain assessment: global use of the Brief Pain Inventory. Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore, 23(2), 129-138. · URL
  • Mendoza, T. R., Mayne, T., Rublee, D., & Cleeland, C. (2006). Rapid assessment of dyspnea in cancer patients: usefulness of a single-item screening question. Cancer, 100(4), 879-885. · URL
  • Keller, S., Bann, C. M., Dodd, S. L., Schein, J., Mendoza, T. R., & Cleeland, C. S. (2004). Validity of the Brief Pain Inventory as a measure of neuropathic pain. Journal of Pain, 5(2), 133-137. · URL
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