Visual Analog Scale pain reporting was standardized

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 618-623

  Kane, Robert L ^a,b   Bershadsky, Boris ^a,b   Rockwood, Todd ^a,b   Saleh, Khaled ^a,b,c   Islam, Nazir C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Pain; Reporting; Standardization; Visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; STANDARDIZATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 18844406568     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.11.017     Document Type: Article

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