A pain scale is a tool that doctors use to help assess a person’s pain. Here are the different types and how they’re used.

Pain scale 0 to 10 is a useful method of assessing. Vector illustration medical chart design A PA re-envisions the pain scale to include follow-up questions that would provide more tangible ...

Some types of pain affect cognitive ability, including number sense, and yet some tools to assess pain use numerical scales. A recent study sought to determine if number sense is altered in ...

Sergey M. Motov, MD, discusses the utility of pain scales for acute pain management in patients in the emergency department.

Discover the complexities of measuring pain on a scale from zero to 10, as explained by a former ER physician turned journalist.

The new scale has a familiar look, but will help patients and doctors determine how badly pain is affecting their lives.

Meanwhile, pain became a part of patient satisfaction measures and reimbursements, especially with the onset of the Affordable Care Act. Reassessing the assessment of pain Dr. Chester ‘Trip’ ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Why is pain measured by numbers? I have severe pain, and doctors do not know what to do when I say it is an 11 on a scale of 1-10. My pain can't be measured by numbers. It depends ...

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 Sweden.

Perspectives > Second Opinions Pain Doesn't Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10 — The real answer is long, complicated, and not measurable in this one-dimensional way by Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, KFF ...