Why rating your pain out of 10 is tricky

"It's really sore," my (Josh's) five-year-old daughter said, cradling her broken arm in the emergency department. "But on a ...
Medscape

Use of Pain Scales in the Emergency Department

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 ...
Popular Science

Pain doesn’t belong on a scale of zero to 10

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The American Journal of Managed Care

Pain Threshold Predictive of Fatigue Severity in SCD, Study Finds

A cross-sectional study found that static pain measures could be useful for predicting fatigue severity in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). “Pain experiences are reported by over a quarter of ...
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Psychological Evaluation of Patients With Cancer Presenting to the Emergency Department With Pain: Independent Predictors of Worse Pain Severity, Interference, and Higher ...

This prospective observational cohort study recruited patients presenting to the ED at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), an urban, academic, tertiary care center in Boston, MA, between January 2020 ...
New Atlas

Non-surgical treatment eases chronic back pain & restores function

Additional inclusion criteria for the study included having a baseline back pain severity score of six or more on an 11-point (zero to 10) numeric rating scale (NRS) and a back function score of ...