Theme | Required element |
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Process | • Makes use of the best items from existing instruments, developing a meta-tool with a pool of useful items |
• To provide a toolkit, not a single tool, out of which instruments can be created for different contexts of application (type of cognitive impairment, setting etc.) | |
• Provide potential to create specific tools (or additional scales) for specific pain associated conditions (such as oral-facial pain, back pain, neuropathic pain) | |
• Includes a guideline-and web-based, multilingual application | |
• Instruments for use in both clinical practice and research | |
• Creation and validation of instruments follows a predefined process, following the COSMIN* criteria. | |
Quality | • Practicable and feasible in different settings (home care, long term care, palliative care and acute hospital care) and different countries (with first the focus on the Western world) |
• Sound psychometric properties, i.e. a reliable and valid instrument | |
• Sensitive to change, i.e. identify new pain and detect changes after successful intervention, for instance with pain medication | |
• Feasible and valid in several important groups of people with cognitive impairment, such as dementias, coma/pvs and people with a mental handicap or learning disability. |