Pain assessment in younger and older pain patients: Psychometric properties and patient preference of five commonly used measures of pain intensity

Pain Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 601-610

  Peters, Madelon L ^a   Patijn, Jacob ^b   Lamé, Inge ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Older pain patients; Pain assessment; Preference; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; VALIDITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34848847525     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2007.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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