Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)
Purpose of the BPI tool is to assess the severity of pain and the impact of pain on daily functions. The tool can be used for patients with pain from chronic diseases or conditions such as cancer, osteoarthritis and low back pain, or with pain from acute conditions such as postoperative pain.
Assessment areas included are severity of pain, impact of pain on daily function, location of pain, pain medications and amount of pain relief in the past 24 hours or the past week.
The BPI copyright is held by Dr Charles S. Cleeland (1991). The copyright applies to the BPI and all it's derivatives in any language.
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