Patient-Reported Outcomes and Fibromyalgia

Abstract

Fibromyalgia (FM) is classified as a chronic pain condition accompanied by symptoms of fatigue, sleep problems, problems with cognition, negative mood, limited functional status, and the presence of other chronic overlapping pain conditions. Comprehensive assessment of all of these components can be challenging. This paper provides an overview of patient-reported approaches that can be taken to assess FM in the contexts of diagnosis, symptom monitoring, phenotyping/characterization, and for purposes of clinical trials.

Keywords: Diagnosis; Fibromyalgia; Multimodal assessment; Pain; Phenotyping; Self-report.