Rating Your Pain From 0 To 10 Might Not Help Your Doctor

The most commonly used measure for pain screening may only be modestly accurate, according to researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina. In a study that appears in the October issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, they evaluate the usefulness of a scale that asks patients in primary care to rate their current pain from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain). [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Pain / Anesthetics on September 20th, 2007