Use of a Medication Quantification Scale for Comparison of Pain Medication Usage in Patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)

Abstract

There appears to be only a weak correlation between amount of pain medication prescribed and patients' reported subjective pain intensity within this limited patient population. The Medication Quantification Scale is a viable tool for the analysis of pharmaceutical treatment of CRPS patients and would be useful in further prospective studies of pain medication prescription practices in the CRPS population worldwide.