Do pain scales truly improve acute pain management in the ED? These results lead to a serious question regarding the true meaning of pain scores: "which scores on a single-item pain scale signify ...

Pain is hard to measure. One person’s “ouch” is another’s agony. Now, scientists say they’ve found a better way of assessing pain: putting a price on it. By translating pain into dollars, they’ve ...

Adult, ambulatory patients (N = 452) with all stages of cancer were included. Three pain measures were evaluated: two items from the Symptom Distress Scale (frequency [SDSF] and intensity [SDSI]) and ...

(Reuters Health) - Asking patients in the emergency room to rate their pain on a visual scale or to rank it from zero to 10 doesn’t really convey what the patient is feeling, suggests a study from ...

2 Postgraduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, Augusto Motta University Centre - UNISUAM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Objective This study investigated the efficacy of cognitive functional therapy (CFT ...

The setting and baseline data collection have been previously reported in full detail. [8] In short, data collection was part of the daily clinical routine in a secondary care outpatient department ...

Joshua Pate has received speaker fees for presentations on pain and physiotherapy. He receives royalties for children's books. Dale Langford has received honoraria and research support from the ...

Higher body responsiveness appears to reduce depressive symptoms associated with pain intensity in patients with chronic pain.

Show More University of Virginia School of Nursing, Charlottesville, VA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Phyllis F. Cantor Center for Research in Nursing and Patient Care Services; and Harvard Medical ...