A PA re-envisions the pain scale to include follow-up questions that would provide more tangible measurements.

As a young doctor joining the “pain revolution,” I probably asked patients thousands of times to rate their pain on a scale of zero to 10 and wrote many scripts each week for pain medication ...

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." ...

Rating scales can be useful for tracking pain intensity over time. If pain goes from 8 to 4, that probably means you're feeling better—even if someone else's four is different to yours.

Perspectives > Second Opinions Pain Doesn't Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10 — The real answer is long, complicated, and not measurable in this one-dimensional way by Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, KFF ...

Communicating pain presents a challenge for patients and providers. Patients have their own individual experience of pain, while providers receive widely variable inputs or explanations. This ...

Abstract e19636 Background: Assessing pain in nonverbal, especially agonic cancer patients is a great challenge. In the absence of self-report, measurement of pain could be difficult and patient`s ...

Pediatric pain assessment tools intended to measure overt behavioral distress are the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Pain Scale (CHEOPS; McGrath et al., 1985), the Observational Scale of ...