Reassessing the assessment of pain: how the numeric scale became so popular in health care - WHYY
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Reassessing the assessment of pain: how the numeric scale became so popular in health care - WHYY
It’s an experience that most everyone has had at a doctor or hospital visit, where at some point, usually early on, the question ‘on a scale of 0-10, what’s your level of pain?’ comes up. Then, before the visit wraps up, you may be asked that question again.
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Alternative pain management strategies for patient pain
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The effect on clinical outcomes when targeting spinal manipulation at stiffness or pain sensitivity: a randomized trial
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Reassessing the assessment of pain: how the numeric scale became so popular in health care - WHYY
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Assessment and Management of Pain in Palliative Care
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Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life - The Lancet
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Frontiers Bidirectional Relationship Between Body Pain and Depressive Symptoms: A Pooled Analysis of Two National Aging Cohort Studies
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Children, Free Full-Text
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Visual Analogue Scale - Physiopedia
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Pain Recognition & Assessment EMRA
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Pain Management in Children: Part 1 — Pain Assessment Tools and a Brief Review of Nonpharmacological and Pharmacological Treatment Options - Cecile Wong, Elaine Lau, Lori Palozzi, Fiona Campbell, 2012
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PDF) Pain Assessment: The Cornerstone to Optimal Pain Management