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Overview

John T. Farrar is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their scholarly activity is concentrated primarily within the field of Medicine, with a notable focus on various subfields including Pharmacology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, and Rheumatology.

The scientist's research addresses several main topics, covering a breadth of issues in pain and related health conditions. These topics include:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research

A significant portion of Farrar's publications appear in venues specialized in pain, neurology, and urology topics. The most frequent venues are:

  • Pain
  • Neurology
  • Journal of Pain
  • The Journal of Urology
  • Neurourology and Urodynamics

Among recent published papers, notable examples reflect a focus on pain outcomes and treatment methodologies:

  • Interpretation of chronic pain clinical trial outcomes: IMMPACT recommended considerations, 2020, Pain
  • Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Opioids in Postsurgical Dental Pain, 2020, Journal of Dental Research
  • Optimizing and Accelerating the Development of Precision Pain Treatments for Chronic Pain: IMMPACT Review and Recommendations, 2022, Journal of Pain
  • Ocular Discomfort and Quality of Life Among Patients in the Dry Eye Assessment and Management Study, 2020, Cornea
  • Research approaches for evaluating opioid sparing in clinical trials of acute and chronic pain treatments: Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials recommendations, 2021, Pain

Farrar collaborates frequently with a number of researchers in the field. Their most common coauthors include:

  • Ian Gilron
  • Robert H. Dworkin
  • Jennifer S. Gewandter
  • Dennis C. Turk
  • H. Henry Lai

Best Publications

  • Clinical importance of changes in chronic pain intensity measured on an 11-point numerical pain rating scale

    John T Farrar;James P Young;Linda LaMoreaux;John L Werth

  • Topical Review and RecommendationsCore outcome measures for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;John T. Farrar;Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite

  • Core outcome domains for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations.

    Dennis C Turk;Robert H Dworkin;Robert R Allen;Nicholas Bellamy

  • Interpreting the Clinical Importance of Treatment Outcomes in Chronic Pain Clinical Trials: IMMPACT Recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;Kathleen W. Wyrwich;Dorcas Beaton

  • Pharmacologic management of neuropathic pain: evidence-based recommendations.

    Robert H. Dworkin;Alec B. O'Connor;Miroslav Backonja;John T. Farrar

  • Advances in Neuropathic Pain: Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Treatment Recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Miroslav Backonja;Michael C. Rowbotham;Robert R. Allen

  • The Prevention and Treatment of Missing Data in Clinical Trials

    Roderick J. Little;Ralph D'Agostino;Michael L. Cohen;Kay Dickersin

  • The National Institutes of Health chronic prostatitis symptom index: Development and validation of a new outcome measure

    Mark S. Litwin;Mary McNAUGHTON-COLLINS;Floyd J. Fowler;J. Curtis Nickel

  • Defining the clinically important difference in pain outcome measures

    John T. Farrar;Russell K. Portenoy;Jesse A. Berlin;Judith L. Kinman

  • Comparison of Logistic Regression versus Propensity Score When the Number of Events Is Low and There Are Multiple Confounders

    M. Soledad Cepeda;Ray Boston;John T. Farrar;Brian L. Strom

  • Development and initial validation of an expanded and revised version of the Short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ-2)

    Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;Dennis A. Revicki;Gale Harding

  • Effects of Testosterone Treatment in Older Men

    P. J. Snyder;S. Bhasin;G. R. Cunningham;A. M. Matsumoto

  • Gout epidemiology: results from the UK General Practice Research Database, 1990-1999.

    Ted R Mikuls;J. T. Farrar;W. B. Bilker;S. Fernandes

  • Interpreting the clinical importance of group differences in chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;Michael P. McDermott;Sarah Peirce-Sandner

  • Clinically Important Changes in Acute Pain Outcome Measures: A Validation Study

    John T Farrar;Jesse A Berlin;Brian L Strom

  • Identifying important outcome domains for chronic pain clinical trials: an IMMPACT survey of people with pain.

    Dennis C. Turk;Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis Revicki;Gale Harding

  • Research design considerations for confirmatory chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations.

    Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;Sarah Peirce-Sandner;Ralf Baron

  • Side effects of opioids during short-term administration: Effect of age, gender, and race

    M Soledad Cepeda;John T Farrar;Mona Baumgarten;Ray Boston

  • The dorsal posterior insula subserves a fundamental role in human pain

    Andrew R Segerdahl;Melvin Mezue;Thomas W Okell;John T Farrar

  • Advances in neuropathic pain: Diagnosis, mechanisms, and treatment recommendations. Editorial

    Robert H. Dworkin;Miroslav Backonja;Michael C. Rowbotham;Robert R. Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert H. Dworkin
Robert H. Dworkin University of Rochester Medical Center
Dennis C. Turk
Dennis C. Turk University of Washington
Michael P. McDermott
Michael P. McDermott University of Rochester
Brian L. Strom
Brian L. Strom Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Angela DeMichele
Angela DeMichele University of Pennsylvania
Sharon X. Xie
Sharon X. Xie University of Pennsylvania
David Cella
David Cella Northwestern University
Robert D. Kerns
Robert D. Kerns Yale University
Srinivasa N. Raja
Srinivasa N. Raja Johns Hopkins University
Kristine E. Ensrud
Kristine E. Ensrud University of Minnesota

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