*The explanation below contains details about the creation and use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs). If you have any questions on this explanation or want to know what your results mean, please contact your clinician.
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Tool
The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) is a tool that doctors and patients use to understand how much pain someone is feeling. It helps people describe how strong their pain is and how it affects their everyday life, like doing things they enjoy or need to do. The BPI was first made to help people with cancer, but now it can be used for many other health problems that cause pain.
With the BPI, you can quickly tell the doctor where your pain is, how bad it is, and if your pain medicine is working. It takes less than 5 minutes to fill out. The BPI has been translated into many languages and is used all over the world in hospitals and research.
The short version of the BPI has a diagram of the body where you can mark where you feel pain, and it asks you to rate your pain on a scale from 0 to 10. It also asks how much your pain medicine has helped in the last day or week.
This tool is often used to help people with bone-related problems like Fibrous Dysplasia, Achondroplasia, or Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Usually, you fill it out once a year or as your doctor advises.
You can read more about this tool here Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)
If you don’t know what your results mean – please, contact your doctor for help.