Exploration of Hospital Inpatients' Use of the Verbal Rating Scale of Pain

Background: Assessment of pain largely relies on self-report. Hospitals routinely use pain scales, such as the Verbal Rating Scale (VRS), to record patients' pain, but such scales are unidimensional, concatenating pain intensity and other dimensions of pain with significant loss of clinical inf...

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Main Authors: Luke Bosdet, Katie Herron, Amanda C. de C. Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Pain Research
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpain.2021.723520/full