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 ...

Risk factors and prophylaxis of irinotecan induced cholinergic syndrome in sight of supportive care. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium ...

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 ...

A pain scale is a tool that doctors use to help assess a person’s pain. A person usually self-reports their pain using a specially designed scale, sometimes with the help of a doctor, parent, or ...

Ranking pain isn’t a simple thing. The standard scale that goes from one to 10, often accompanied by smiley faces that become increasingly distressed, has been lampooned by many as being difficult to ...

If you're in the hospital or a doctor's office with a painful problem, you'll likely be asked to rate your pain on a scale of 0 to 10 – with 0 meaning no pain at all and 10 indicating the worst pain ...

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): ...