Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients reported that the instrument’s questions, recall period and response scale were easy to understand. A ...

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 ...

Pain intensity was measured with numeric and verbal rating scales as assessment tools. Number sense was assessed using number naming, number marking, and line bisection tasks. Researchers noted the ...

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 ...

The Skin Pain Numeric Rating Scale, Worst-Itch Numeric Rating Scale, and Dermatology Life Quality Index were evaluated for their content validity, fit-for-purpose, and psychometric and measurement ...

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 ...

Our results suggest that in the measurement of cancer pain exacerbations, patients use NRS more appropriately than VRS and as such NRS should be preferred to VRS in this patient's population. (VAS): ...