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January 18, 2011

How Valid Are Pain Validity Tests?

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We recently ran across an article citing a company that has reportedly devised a test to determine if pain is real. Here is the article, “Pain Validity Test Gets 30 Workers’ Compensation Claimants Back to Work Immediately.”

Here is the company that offers the test: http://veritassupporttesting.com. We have no experience with the test and would welcome comments from those who have reviewed or used it. It sounds like an interesting concept, but whether it meets scientific and clinical scrutiny is not clear to us.

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Tagged: Cost Containment, Health Policy, Injury and Trauma, Workers' Compensation 4 Comments

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  1. Jim Newhall says

    January 18, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    I’d feel more optimistic about the validity of this testing were it not for the fact that following the link leads to a website for a lawfirm looking for clients….

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  2. Zvi Herschman, MD says

    January 31, 2011 at 11:59 am

    When a careful, independant examiantion is done, it will pick up up most of the inappropriate cases. The key is to find truly independant examiners

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  3. Nelson Hendler, MD, MS says

    October 21, 2013 at 5:43 pm

    The company, Veritas, was merged into http://www.MarylandClinicalDiagnostics.com. The Pain Validity Test was developed by a team of physicians from Johns Hopkins Hospital, and has been validated on 794 patients in 7 published studies. The Pain Validity Test is now available at http://www.MarylandClinicalDiagnostics.com, as is the Diagnostic Paradigm and Treatment Algorithm, which addresses the 40%-67% of chronic pain patients who are misdiagnosed. There are a series of published reprints, from peer reviewed medical journals, on SlideShare.net, which offer data on these tests.

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  4. Nelson Hendler, MD, MS says

    January 2, 2016 at 9:48 am

    Please email me at DocNelse@aol.com for more information on the Pain Validity Test from Johns Hopkins Hospital. It has been used in 30 cases in 8 states, and always admitted as evidence. Nelson Hendler, MD, MS former assistant professor of neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, past president-American Academy of Pain Management

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