% in favor for inclusion | Dublin Descriptors | comment | ||||
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Panel 1 | Panel 2 | Total | Panel 1 | Panel 2 | ||
A.Taxonomy of Pain Systems. | ||||||
1. Distinction between acute, recurrent, incident, and or persistent (chronic) pain. | 100 | 92 | 95 | 3 | 3 | |
2. Distinction between nociceptive (somatic, visceral) and non-nociceptive (neuropathic) pain. | 100 | 92 | 95 | 3 | 3 | |
3. Distinction between commonly used pain terms in clinical practice. | 86 | 100 | 95 | 3 | 3 | |
4. Involvement of biological, psychological and social factors influencing the perception of pain. | 100 | 92 | 95 | 3 | 3 | |
B. Pain in special populations | ||||||
1. Pain in infants, children and adolescents. | 43 | 79 | 67 | excluded | ||
2. Pain in older adults. | 86 | 73 | 76 | 2 | 1 | DD difference |
3. Pain in individuals with limited ability to communicate. | 29 | 71 | 57 | excluded | ||
4. Pain in pregnancy, labor, breast feeding. | 29 | 36 | 33 | excluded | ||
5. Pain with psychiatric disorders. | 14 | 50 | 38 | excluded | ||
6. Pain in individuals with substance abuse. | 29 | 43 | 38 | excluded | ||
C: acute time-limited pain. | ||||||
1. Surgery | 86 | 64 | 71 | 1 | 1 | |
2. Trauma | 71 | 71 | 71 | 2 | 2 | |
3. Infection | 71 | 57 | 62 | 2 | 2 | excluded |
4. Inflammation | 86 | 86 | 86 | 1 | 1 | |
5. Burn | 43 | 43 | 43 | – | – | excluded |
D. cancer pain | ||||||
1. Primary pain | 57 | 71 | 67 | excluded | ||
2. Local invasion | 57 | 43 | 48 | excluded | ||
3. Metastatic spread | 57 | 50 | 52 | excluded | ||
4. Treatment-related | 57 | 71 | 67 | excluded | ||
5. End-of-life | 43 | 71 | 62 | excluded | ||
E. Visceral pain | ||||||
1. Referred patterns | 43 | 64 | 57 | excluded | ||
2. Cardiac and non-cardiac chest pain | 43 | 36 | 38 | excluded | ||
3. Abdominal, peritoneal, retroperitoneal pain | 29 | 21 | 24 | excluded | ||
4. Pelvic pain (male and female) | 29 | 50 | 43 | excluded | ||
5. Sickle cell crisis | 14 | 21 | 19 | excluded | ||
F. Headache and Facial Pain | ||||||
1. Headache | 43 | 71 | 62 | excluded | ||
2. Orofacial pain | 43 | 57 | 52 | excluded | ||
3. Trigeminal neuralgia | 29 | 57 | 48 | excluded | ||
G. Neuropatic Pain | ||||||
1. Primary Lesion Central. | 71 | 71 | 71 | 2 | 2 | |
2. Primary Lesion Peripheral. | 71 | 86 | 81 | 3 | 3 | |
3. Mixed or unclear origin. | 100 | 86 | 90 | 1 | 3 | DD differs |
H. Musculoskelethal Pain. | ||||||
1. Rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis. | 100 | 71 | 81 | 2 | 2 | |
2. Neck pain, whiplash and referred pain. | 100 | 71 | 81 | 2 | 2 | |
3. Low back pain and referred pain. | 100 | 93 | 95 | 2 | 2 | |
4. Injuries from athletics. | 86 | 57 | 67 | excluded | ||
5. Myofascial pain syndrome. | 86 | 57 | 67 | excluded |