title: Assessment of neuropathic pain in the community.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with evidence basedclinical guidance regarding assessing neuropathic pain. Persistent pain is a huge burden on health-care provision and the prevalence of persistent neuropathic pain is likely to increase owing to the ageing population. The provision of appropriate relieving interventions depends on accurate assessment. This paper sets out to provide the reader with simple neuropathic assessment tools that can be applied to community care. This will allow the community nurse to identify patients who have neuropathic pain and will therefore enable appropriate management.
authors.affiliation: University of Britist Columbia. Tarnia.Taverner@nursing.ubc.ca
authors.forename: Tarnia
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Taverner
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006801:Humans; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires