Preference for different anchor descriptors on visual analogue scales among Japanese patients with chronic pain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Yokobe, Junya ^a   Kitahara, Masaki ^a   Matsushima, Masato ^a   Uezono, Shoichi ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC PAIN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN CATASTROPHIZING SCALE; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902821139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099891     Document Type: Article

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