(Reuters Health) - 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 ...

Pain scale 0 to 10 is a useful method of assessing. Vector illustration medical chart design A PA re-envisions the pain scale to include follow-up questions that would provide more tangible ...

Do pain scales truly improve acute pain management in the ED? These results lead to a serious question regarding the true meaning of pain scores: "which scores on a single-item pain scale signify ...

Among the many pain scales that pain management physicians can use to evaluate pain, the Global Pain Scale can serve as a reliable and effective alternative to other pain assessments, researchers ...

Aim: Inadequate assessment of pain may be due to lack of an easy reliable scale. We developed and validated a pain scale (ABC scale) for term babies based on acoustic features of crying. Methods: The ...

Over the past two years, a simple but baffling request has preceded most of my encounters with medical professionals: "Rate your pain on a scale of zero to 10." I trained as a physician and have asked ...

Pain is hard to measure. One person’s “ouch” is another’s agony. Now, scientists say they’ve found a better way of assessing pain: putting a price on it. By translating pain into dollars, they’ve ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. –From the soldier returning home with a battlefield injury to the school teacher suffering from headaches, pain is a normal concept for daily life. This makes understanding and ...

Pain is a constant, complex companion that clinicians often struggle to understand and measure for people living with sickle ...

The following is an installment of the "Try This" series published by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. The content is intended to encourage nurses to understand the ...