Validity of a verbally administered numeric rating scale to measure cancer pain intensity

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 88-93

  Paice, Judith A ^a,b   Cohen, Felissa L ^c  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Numeric rating scale; Pain; Simple descriptor scale; Visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0030906886     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-199704000-00002     Document Type: Article

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