Lack of interchangeability between visual analogue and verbal rating pain scales: a cross sectional description of pain etiology groups

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Research article

Lack of interchangeability between visual analogue and verbal rating pain scales: a cross sectional description of pain etiology groups

Iréne Lund¹ , Thomas Lundeberg²^,3 , Louise Sandberg² , Cecilia Norrbrink Budh³ , Jan Kowalski¹ and Elisabeth Svensson⁴

¹Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE-171 77 Sweden.

²Rehabilitation Medicine Clinic, Danderyds Hospital AB, Stockholm, SE-182 88 Sweden.

³Spinalis SCI unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, SE-169 89 Sweden.

⁴Department of Statistics (ESI), Örebro University, Örebro, SE 701-81 Sweden.

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BMC Medical Research Methodology 2005, 5:31doi:10.1186/1471-2288-5-31


Published:	4 October 2005

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Supplementary Figure 1a-b. The two rating scales used for self-assessed actual pain intensity. In the analysis, the VAS and the VRS assessments were assigned the numeric values 0 through 100 and 0 through 4 respectively, each with the anchor points "no pain" and "worst possible pain" respectively.

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