Memorial researcher to study how pain is recorded

PAWTUCKET – Memorial Hospital’s Roberta Goldman will use funding obtained from the University of Southern California to quantify how patients’ experiences of pain are recorded, and how those pain indices assist physicians in treating them.

The money from USC is a subcontract of a National Institutes of Health grant that will provide slightly more than $100,000 in salary for Goldman, who is also a clinical professor of family medicine at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University.

Goldman’s study, entitled “Innovative pain outcomes derived from patients’ real-time pain reports,” will be based on nationwide interviewing of patients with chronic pain, clinicians who treat patients with chronic pain, prescription drug regulators and clinical trial researchers.

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