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NeuPSIG guidelines on neuropathic pain assessment

  • Maija Haanpää

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation ORTON, Helsinki, Finland
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, P.O. Box 266, 00029 HUS, Helsinki, Finland. Tel.: +358 50 5837722; fax: +358 9 47187560.
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  • Nadine Attal

      Affiliations

    • INSERM U-987, Centre d’Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, Hoˆpital Ambroise Pare´, APHP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
    • Universite´ Versailles Saint-Quentin, France
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  • Miroslav Backonja

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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  • Ralf Baron

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Department of Neurology, Universitatsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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  • Michael Bennett

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Health Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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  • Didier Bouhassira

      Affiliations

    • INSERM U-987, Centre d’Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, Hoˆpital Ambroise Pare´, APHP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
    • Universite´ Versailles Saint-Quentin, France
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  • Giorgio Cruccu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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  • Per Hansson

      Affiliations

    • Pain Center, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Clinical Pain Research, Karolinska University Hospital/Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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  • Gian Domenico Iannetti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK
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  • Troels S. Jensen

      Affiliations

    • Danish Pain Research Center and Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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  • Timo Kauppila

      Affiliations

    • Korso-Koivukylä Health Centre, Vantaa, Finland
    • Network of Academic Health Centres, Departments of General Practice and Primary Healthcare, Institute of Clinical Medicine and Department of National Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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  • Turo J. Nurmikko

      Affiliations

    • Pain Research Institute, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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  • Andew S.C. Rice

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine and Intensive Care, Imperial College London, London, UK
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  • Michael Rowbotham

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, QCSF Pain Clinic Research Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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  • Jordi Serra

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, MC Mutual & Neuroscience Technologies, Barcelona Science Park, Barcelona, Spain
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  • Claudia Sommer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, Germany
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  • Blair H. Smith

      Affiliations

    • Centre of Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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  • Rolf-Detlef Treede

      Affiliations

    • Center for Biomedicine and Medical Technology Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

Received 29 August 2009 ,Revised 2 July 2010 ,Accepted 29 July 2010.

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Supplementary Table 1

Information on case identification and ascertainment from the epidemiological papers.

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Supplementary Table 2

Validation studies of the screening tools of neuropathic pain.

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Supplementary Table 3

Studies on quantitative somatosensory testing.

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Studies on treatment of neuropathic pain.

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Psychological factors in neuropathic pain.

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Studies on neuropathic pain with assessment of disability.

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Studies on neuropathic pain with assessment of quality of life.

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Change of quality of life in randomized controlled trials on neuropathic pain.

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Reflexes as a diagnostic tool.

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Evoked potentials as a diagnostic tool.

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Microneurography studies.

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PET/fMRI as a diagnostic tool.

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PET/fMRI in assessing treatment.

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Supplementary Table 14

Studies on skin biopsy in neuropathies and neuropathic pain.

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Studies on autonomic nervous system function in neuropathic pain.

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Supplementary Appendix 1

Search strategies.

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Supplementary Appendix 2

Inclusion and exclusion criteria for epidemiological papers.

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Supplementary Appendix 3

Measures of disability.

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References.

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PII: S0304-3959(10)00453-7

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.07.031

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