Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the PROMIS Pediatric Pain Intensity Measure in Children and Adolescents with Chronic Pain
Appropriate management of pediatric pain relies on accurate assessment of pain intensity. The gold standard for assessing pain intensity is by self-report: “pain is what the patient says it is, and occurs when he or she says it does”.36 A number of patient-reported pain intensity measures are widely used in pediatric populations, including visual analog scales (VAS35), numeric rating scales (NRS11,33), and faces pain scales (FPS-R1,32); however the psychometric precision of these measures are limited.
Source: The Journal of Pain - Category: Materials Science Authors: Constance A. Mara, Susmita Kashikar-Zuck, Natoshia Cunningham, Kenneth R. Goldschneider, Bin Huang, Carlton Dampier, David D. Sherry, Lori Crosby, Jennifer Farrell Miller, Kimberly Barnett, Esi M. Morgan Tags: Original Reports Source Type: research
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