Establishment of cutpoints to categorize the severity of chronic pain using composite ratings with Rasch analysis

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Abstract

The results suggest that using optimal cutpoint for composite pain may be useful to classify clinically important groups in patients with chronic pain and that average pain may be an alternative choice if a single item is used. WHAT DOES THIS STUDY ADD?: Using composite pain, optimal classification for mild, moderate and severe pain exhibited better discriminant ability than using single worst/average pain. The difficulty hierarchy of the least, worst, average and current pain helps to screen people with irregular responses.

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