Chronic Pain Data

A reduced version of the data collected by Hechler et al. (2014)

Usage

hechler_2014

Format

A tibble with 208 rows and 3 variables:

patient

Patient identifier

measurement

Indicator of measurement

disability

Pain-related disability as measured with the PPDI (lower is better)

References

Hechler, T., Ruhe, A.‑K., Schmidt, P., Hirsch, J., Wager, J., Dobe, M., Krummenauer, F., & Zernikow, B. (2014). Inpatient Based Intensive Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment for Highly Impaired Children with Severe Chronic Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial of Efficacy and Economic Effects. Pain, 155(1), 118–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2013.09.015