Those with migraine had had pain for at least 12 months and the acute pain group had undergone orthopedic surgery within the past 24 hours. Pain intensity was measured with numeric and verbal rating ...

Background: Numerical rating scales (NRS), and verbal rating scales (VRS) showed to be reliable and valid tools for subjective cancer pain measurement, but no one of them consistently proved to be ...

Numerical rating scale pain scores accurately measure pain intensity in relation to perceived need for medicine, pain relief and pain satisfaction in children, according to a study published in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Professor Winfried Meissner is the Head of the Pain Unit, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at ...

Asking patients in the emergency room to rate their pain on a visual scale or to rank it from zero to 10 doesn't really convey what the patient is feeling, suggests a study from Sweden. Pain scales ...

A new study out today from the JAMA Network Open found that this simple question, used in conjunction with the traditional 0-10 rating scale posed to patients, could help doctors better understand ...

Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The last time you went to see a doctor, it was probably because you were in pain – it’s by far the main reason people ...

This analysis is based on data from 240 patients consecutively enrolled in a cross sectional Italian multicentre study aimed at estimating BP-EP prevalence in a population of advanced cancer patients ...