A new standardized tool for the assessment of chronic pain can differentiate between pain subtypes and may help tailor treatment. The new tool is published in this week's open-access journal PLoS ...

Pain assessment and management in critical care is a multifaceted challenge that encompasses both the sensory and emotional dimensions of pain. In intensive care settings, patients frequently face ...

Pain assessment in medicine often relies on imprecise visual rating scales featuring smiling or crying faces, frustrating patients and physicians alike. Children's National Hospital researchers aim to ...

Pain assessment in elderly nursing home residents can be a challenge, as over half of these individuals have dementia, and many are unable to self-report pain. Zwakhalen et al. conducted a systematic ...

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. April 28, 2009 — A new pain assessment tool helps separate radicular from axial low back pain (LBP), according to the results of a study reported ...

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Chugai and Boston-based digital therapeutics company Biofourmis announced that they have partnered to develop a digital solution for the objective assessment of pain ...

How do you measure the pain of a patient who can't communicate? One researcher studied an observational pain scale in cardiac surgery patients, and found that the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool ...

Currently used pain assessment tools may be underestimating the pain response in infants according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine this week. Dr. Slater and colleagues ...

Reliability Reliability refers to how reproducible the results of the measure are under different conditions or by different raters. Instruments must first be reliable. Reliability is not a property ...