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Pain scale

About: Pain scale is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3522 publications have been published within this topic receiving 107242 citations. The topic is also known as: Face scale.


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TL;DR: For assessing response to treatment, a pain-relief scale has advantages over a pain scale as discussed by the authors, which cannot be said to have been relieved unless pain or pain relief has been directly measured.

3,652 citations

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TL;DR: Of the various methods for measuring pain the visual analogue scale seems to be the most sensitive, and for assessing response to treatment a pain-relief scale has advantages over a pain scale.
Abstract: Of the various methods for measuring pain the visual analogue scale seems to be the most sensitive. For assessing response to treatment a pain-relief scale has advantages over a pain scale. Pain cannot be said to have been relieved unless pain or pain relief has been directly measured.

3,017 citations

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01 Jun 1976-Pain
TL;DR: Most patients could readily use visual analogue and graphic rating scales despite having no previous experience and use of these scales is the best available method for measuring pain or pain relief.
Abstract: Of the different types of visual analogue and graphic rating scales tested in a series of experiments, only two were satisfactory: these were the visual analogue scale and the graphic rating scales used horizontally with the words spread out along the whole length of the line. Other types of scale used gave distributions of results which were not uniform. Unusual distribution of results occurred when patients selected a position adjacent either to descriptive terms or preferred numbers. In some experiments, the distribution of results was determined by the nature of the experiment. Alternation of the ends of a scale did not affect the results. The behaviour of the graphic rating scale was different in patients accustomed to completing it and in those not so accustomed. The results of pain severity measured by these methods showed a very good correlation with pain severity measured by the simple descriptive pain scale. Changes in visual analogue scores also correlated well with changes in simple descriptive pain scores. The visual analogue and graphic rating scales were more sensitive than the traditional simple descriptive pain scale. Most patients could readily use visual analogue and graphic rating scales despite having no previous experience. The failure rate was slightly lower with the graphic rating method. Use of these scales is the best available method for measuring pain or pain relief.

2,510 citations

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01 Aug 2001-Pain
TL;DR: The FPS‐R is shown to be appropriate for use in assessment of the intensity of children's acute pain from age 4 or 5 onward, and has the advantage of being suitable for use with the most widely used metric for scoring, and conforms closely to a linear interval scale.
Abstract: The Faces Pain Scale (FPS; Bieri et al., Pain 41 (1990) 139) is a self-report measure used to assess the intensity of children's pain. Three studies were carried out to revise the original scale and validate the adapted version. In the first phase, the FPS was revised from its original seven faces to six, while maintaining its desirable psychometric properties, in order to make it compatible in scoring with other self-rating and observational scales which use a common metric (0–5 or 0–10). Using a computer-animated version of the FPS developed by Champion and colleagues (Sydney Animated Facial Expressions Scale), psychophysical methods were applied to identify four faces representing equal intervals between the scale values representing least pain and most pain. In the second phase, children used the new six-face Faces Pain Scale – Revised (FPS-R) to rate the intensity of pain from ear piercing. Its validity is supported by a strong positive correlation (r=0.93, N=76) with a visual analogue scale (VAS) measure in children aged 5–12 years. In the third phase, a clinical sample of pediatric inpatients aged 4–12 years used the FPS-R and a VAS or the colored analogue scale (CAS) to rate pain during hospitalization for surgical and non-surgical painful conditions. The validity of the FPS-R was further supported by strong positive correlations with the VAS (r=0.92, N=45) and the CAS (r=0.84, N=45) in this clinical sample. Most children in all age groups including the youngest were able to use the FPS-R in a manner that was consistent with the other measures. There were no significant differences between the means on the FPS-R and either of the analogue scales. The FPS-R is shown to be appropriate for use in assessment of the intensity of children's acute pain from age 4 or 5 onward. It has the advantage of being suitable for use with the most widely used metric for scoring (0–10), and conforms closely to a linear interval scale.

1,676 citations

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TL;DR: Chemotherapy with mitoxantrone and prednisone provides palliation for some patients with symptomatic hormone-resistant prostate cancer and most responding patients had an improvement in quality-of-life scales and a decrease in serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level.
Abstract: PURPOSETo investigate the benefit of chemotherapy in patients with symptomatic hormone-resistant prostate cancer using relevant end points of palliation in a randomized controlled trial.PATIENTS AND METHODSWe randomized 161 hormone-refractory patients with pain to receive mitoxantrone plus prednisone or prednisone alone (10 mg daily). Nonresponding patients on prednisone could receive mitoxantrone subsequently. The primary end point was a palliative response defined as a 2-point decrease in pain as assessed by a 6-point pain scale completed by patients (or complete loss of pain if initially 1 +) without an increase in analgesic medication and maintained for two consecutive evaluations at least 3 weeks apart. Secondary end points were a decrease of > or = 50% in use of analgesic medication without an increase in pain, duration of response, and survival. Health-related quality of life was evaluated with a series of linear analog self-assessment scales (LASA and the Prostate Cancer-Specific Quality-of-Life I...

1,566 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202333
202272
2021274
2020274
2019222
2018252