Clinical importance of changes in chronic pain intensity measured on an 11-point numerical pain rating scale

Pain

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 149-158

  Farrar, John T ^a   Young Jr , James P ^b   LaMoreaux, Linda ^b   Werth, John L ^b   Poole, R Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesics; Clinical trials; Human; Numeric rating scale; Pain measurement; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PREGABALIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034748159     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(01)00349-9     Document Type: Article

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