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Assessment of patients’ pain-related physical and emotional functioning is one of the most important measures in pain evaluation, and are two of the four key domains recommended by IMMPACT for interpreting the significance of treatment outcomes in clinical trials.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Michael P. Zaccagnino MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Pain Management Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Srdjan S. Nedeljkovic MD

  3. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Srdjan S. Nedeljkovic MD

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  1. Michael P. Zaccagnino MD
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Correspondence to Michael P. Zaccagnino MD .

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    R. Jason Yong

  2. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael Nguyen

  3. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ehren Nelson

  4. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Health Care Center at Chestnut Hill, Center for Perioperative Research, Sedation for Interventional Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Zaccagnino, M.P., Nedeljkovic, S.S. (2017). Functional Assessment Tools. In: Yong, R., Nguyen, M., Nelson, E., Urman, R. (eds) Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_22

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