Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale scores associated with longer PROMIS measures

© American Society of Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine 2022. No commercial reuse. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. INTRODUCTION Accurately assessing acute pain requires capturing the biopsychosocial impact pain can have on functioning, especially after orthopedic surgery. Numerous measures exist; however, the preponderance of pain assessments focus on pain intensity alone or require lengthy assessments that may not be of use to clinicians and researchers alike. The Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale (DVPRS) is a brief pain assessment capable of capturing the impact of pain on activity, mood, sleep, and stress. This analysis examined the association between the DVPRS, Pain Numeric Rating Scale (NRS), and PatientReported Outcome Measures Information System (PROMIS) in a civilian orthopedic sample. To date, the DVPRS has been validated and predominantly used in military and veteran settings, often with small homogeneous samples. This analysis offers a larger, diverse civilian sample, presenting with a broad array of injury types, which enhances the generalizability of this work to other high volume orthopedic clinics.