Pain-QuILT: A user-friendly tool for the self-report and tracking of pain

摘要

Pain-QuILT is a web-accessible and mobile-accessible tool for the visualself-report and tracking of pain symptoms. It is intended for adolescents(aged 12 years) and adults living with chronic pain, and the clinicians whotreat them. QuILT is an acronym for the different sensory parametersassociated with the pain experiences that are captured by the tool—quality,intensity,andlocation—inadigitalformatthatcanbetrackedovertime.PainQuILT was developed and evaluated through PhD research1 at McMasterUniversity (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) through a user-centred approachinvolving patients and clinicians.