Pain as bad as you can imagine or extremely severe pain? A randomized controlled trial comparing two pain scale anchors

Abstract Background A common method of pain assessment is the numerical rating scale, where patients are asked to rate their pain on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is “no pain” and 10 is “pain as bad as you can imagine”. We hypothesize such language is suboptimal as it involves a test of a cognitive...

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Published in:	Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Main Authors:	Amy L. Tin, Mia Austria, Gabriel Ogbennaya, Susan Chimonas, Paulin Andréll, Thomas M. Atkinson, Andrew J. Vickers, Sigrid V. Carlsson
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	SpringerOpen 2023-11-01
Subjects:	Pain Numeric rating scale Validity Patient-reported outcomes
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s41687-023-00665-w