Aims and goals for Pain Registries SIG:

• Provide guidance on best practice in developing pain registries
• Represent pain registries within IASP.
• Support collaborators from medical centers, worldwide, to join or initiate pain registries for procedures, therapies or services
• Initiate and advance registry-related projects.
• Guide on funding to support the further expansion and development of registries.
• Encourage collaborators to present their findings at IASP meetings
• Promote registry-based trials
• Encourage existing medical registries (unrelated to pain specifically) to include some "agreed" standard pain outcomes as a minimum