Brief Pain Inventory
The Brief Pain Inventory captures pain intensity and how pain interferes with daily life. This page is for clinics evaluating the measure on Lirena. It is not a diagnosis and not a test to complete here.
Overview
What is the BPI?
The BPI asks about pain severity and interference. Clinics use it to structure that account for clinician review. It does not establish a pain diagnosis, neuropathic mechanism, or treatment plan.
Development and clinical use
Cleeland and colleagues developed the BPI in cancer-pain research at MD Anderson. Short and longer forms exist. Confirm the exact form and recall period before a live pathway.
- Focus
- Severity and interference
- Mode
- Patient self-report
- Typical use
- Pain-clinic intake
- Form
- Confirm before live use
- Clinical role
- Pain-context support
- Diagnosis
- Not established by score
Administration
A focused client experience
BPI is completed as a focused self-report and stored for clinician review. This public page does not collect answers or return a score.
- One question at a time with visible progress
- Large keyboard-operable response choices
- Previous, next, and answer-review steps
- Clear confirmation that results go to the clinic
The illustration shows layout only. It does not reproduce BPI item wording.
Report showcase
Designed to make evidence easy to review
The downloadable synthetic example illustrates report layout using invented response patterns, without patient data or instrument questions.
- Named instrument, version, and provenance
- Item-level response pattern without source wording
- Methodology, references, and clinical boundary
- Responsible clinician review rather than automated conclusions
Clinician review required
Methodology
Understand the measure and its scoring conventions
Published scoring conventions may exist in official materials. This public page does not independently verify scoring, cutoffs, or a production scoring rule. Use the official form and scoring instructions for the version you intend to use.
References
- BPI developmentCleeland CS, Ryan KM. Pain assessment: global use of the Brief Pain Inventory. Ann Acad Med Singap. 1994;23(2):129-138.
- Official BPI informationThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Brief Pain Inventory.
Questions
What clinics ask before they evaluate the BPI
These answers stay inside educational catalogue scope. They do not replace official manuals or clinician judgement.
Does BPI diagnose a pain condition?
No. It structures intensity and interference for clinician review.
Can I complete BPI here?
No. This landing is educational catalogue information.
Is BPI a neuropathic-pain test?
No. Neuropathic-feature questionnaires such as DN4 or painDETECT are different instruments.
Which BPI form should a clinic use?
Confirm the current official form and recall period. This page does not assign the measure.