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The ACTTION-APS-AAPM Pain Taxonomy (AAAPT) Multidimensional Approach to Classifying Acute Pain Conditions.

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Kent, ML; Tighe, PJ; Belfer, I; Brennan, TJ; Bruehl, S; Brummett, CM; Buckenmaier, CC; Buvanendran, A; Cohen, RI; Desjardins, P; Edwards, D ...
Published in: J Pain
May 2017

OBJECTIVE: With the increasing societal awareness of the prevalence and impact of acute pain, there is a need to develop an acute pain classification system that both reflects contemporary mechanistic insights and helps guide future research and treatment. Existing classifications of acute pain conditions are limiting, with a predominant focus on the sensory experience (eg, pain intensity) and pharmacologic consumption. Consequently, there is a need to more broadly characterize and classify the multidimensional experience of acute pain. SETTING: Consensus report following expert panel involving the Analgesic, Anesthetic, and Addiction Clinical Trial Translations, Innovations, Opportunities, and Networks (ACTTION), American Pain Society (APS), and American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM). METHODS: As a complement to a taxonomy recently developed for chronic pain, the ACTTION public-private partnership with the US Food and Drug Administration, the APS, and the AAPM convened a consensus meeting of experts to develop an acute pain taxonomy using prevailing evidence. Key issues pertaining to the distinct nature of acute pain are presented followed by the agreed-upon taxonomy. The ACTTION-APS-AAPM Acute Pain Taxonomy will include the following dimensions: 1) core criteria, 2) common features, 3) modulating factors, 4) impact/functional consequences, and 5) putative pathophysiologic pain mechanisms. Future efforts will consist of working groups utilizing this taxonomy to develop diagnostic criteria for a comprehensive set of acute pain conditions. PERSPECTIVE: The ACTTION-APS-AAPM Acute Pain Taxonomy (AAAPT) is a multidimensional acute pain classification system designed to classify acute pain along the following dimensions: 1) core criteria, 2) common features, 3) modulating factors, 4) impact/functional consequences, and 5) putative pathophysiologic pain mechanisms. CONCLUSIONS: Significant numbers of patients still suffer from significant acute pain, despite the advent of modern multimodal analgesic strategies. Mismanaged acute pain has a broad societal impact as significant numbers of patients may progress to suffer from chronic pain. An acute pain taxonomy provides a much-needed standardization of clinical diagnostic criteria, which benefits clinical care, research, education, and public policy. For the purposes of the present taxonomy, acute pain is considered to last up to seven days, with prolongation to 30 days being common. The current understanding of acute pain mechanisms poorly differentiates between acute and chronic pain and is often insufficient to distinguish among many types of acute pain conditions. Given the usefulness of the AAPT multidimensional framework, the AAAPT undertook a similar approach to organizing various acute pain conditions.

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J Pain

DOI

EISSN

1528-8447

Publication Date

May 2017

Volume

18

Issue

5

Start / End Page

479 / 489

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Societies, Medical
  • Public-Private Sector Partnerships
  • Pain Measurement
  • Humans
  • Classification
  • Anesthesiology
  • Acute Pain
  • 4202 Epidemiology
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
 

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Kent, M. L., Tighe, P. J., Belfer, I., Brennan, T. J., Bruehl, S., Brummett, C. M., … Terman, G. (2017). The ACTTION-APS-AAPM Pain Taxonomy (AAAPT) Multidimensional Approach to Classifying Acute Pain Conditions. J Pain, 18(5), 479–489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2017.02.421
Kent, Michael L., Patrick J. Tighe, Inna Belfer, Timothy J. Brennan, Stephen Bruehl, Chad M. Brummett, Chester C. Buckenmaier, et al. “The ACTTION-APS-AAPM Pain Taxonomy (AAAPT) Multidimensional Approach to Classifying Acute Pain Conditions.J Pain 18, no. 5 (May 2017): 479–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2017.02.421.
Kent ML, Tighe PJ, Belfer I, Brennan TJ, Bruehl S, Brummett CM, et al. The ACTTION-APS-AAPM Pain Taxonomy (AAAPT) Multidimensional Approach to Classifying Acute Pain Conditions. J Pain. 2017 May;18(5):479–89.
Kent, Michael L., et al. “The ACTTION-APS-AAPM Pain Taxonomy (AAAPT) Multidimensional Approach to Classifying Acute Pain Conditions.J Pain, vol. 18, no. 5, May 2017, pp. 479–89. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2017.02.421.
Kent ML, Tighe PJ, Belfer I, Brennan TJ, Bruehl S, Brummett CM, Buckenmaier CC, Buvanendran A, Cohen RI, Desjardins P, Edwards D, Fillingim R, Gewandter J, Gordon DB, Hurley RW, Kehlet H, Loeser JD, Mackey S, McLean SA, Polomano R, Rahman S, Raja S, Rowbotham M, Suresh S, Schachtel B, Schreiber K, Schumacher M, Stacey B, Stanos S, Todd K, Turk DC, Weisman SJ, Wu C, Carr DB, Dworkin RH, Terman G. The ACTTION-APS-AAPM Pain Taxonomy (AAAPT) Multidimensional Approach to Classifying Acute Pain Conditions. J Pain. 2017 May;18(5):479–489.
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Published In

J Pain

DOI

EISSN

1528-8447

Publication Date

May 2017

Volume

18

Issue

5

Start / End Page

479 / 489

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Societies, Medical
  • Public-Private Sector Partnerships
  • Pain Measurement
  • Humans
  • Classification
  • Anesthesiology
  • Acute Pain
  • 4202 Epidemiology
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences