A method for overcoming the ceiling effect of bounded pain scales

Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 455-459

  Hartmannsgruber, Maximilian W B ^b   Swamidoss, Cephas P ^b   Budde, Arne ^b   Qadir, Sohail ^b   Brull, Sorin J ^b   Silverman, David G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Monitoring: severe pain; Pain scales: verbal numeric scale (VNS), magnitude estimation

Indexed keywords

PATIENT MONITORING; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION; PAIN SCALES; VERBAL NUMERICAL SCALE (VNS);

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN ELECTRODE; STIMULUS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0033509853     PISSN: 13871307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009961222017     Document Type: Article

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