Evaluating chronic pain patients using methods from Johns Hopkins Hospital physicians

Abstract

Chronic pain patients are misdiagnosed 40%-80% of the time, according to research from Johns Hopkins Hospital physicians. Methods to determine the validity of the complaint of pain, as well as clinical suggestions on methods to improve the accuracy of diagnosis and testing are summarized, as well as the description of an Internet based system which provides diagnoses with a 96% correlation with diagnoses of Johns Hopkins Hospital physicians.