Pain as bad as you can imagine or extremely severe pain? A randomized controlled trial comparing two pain scale anchors

• Main Authors: Amy L. Tin (Author), Mia Austria (Author), Gabriel Ogbennaya (Author), Susan Chimonas (Author), Paulin Andréll (Author), Thomas M. Atkinson (Author), Andrew J. Vickers (Author), Sigrid V. Carlsson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A common method of pain assessment is the numerical rating scale, where patients are asked to rate their pain on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is "no pain" and 10 is "pain as bad as you can imagine". We hypothesize such language is suboptimal as it involves a...