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This project receives funding from:
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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The Nathan Cummings Foundation
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Technology Opportunities Program,
National Telecommunications and
Information Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce
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Pain Assessment Scale |
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The most common reason people seek health care is that they are in
pain. Pain scales are used to monitor pain and to foster communication between
patients and their health care providers. By using the 0-10 point scale, people
have a means to communicate their pain intensity and clinicians have a means to track
it, just as they would keep track of other vital signs, like temperature, blood
pressure, respiration and pulse.
The Missoula Demonstration Project Pain as the Fifth Vital Sign task force
reviewed existing pain scales and developed the two versions below. The 0-10
numeric pain rating scale includes verbal descriptions of pain intensity and
physical functioning. The Wong-Baker "faces" scale is used primarily with children.
The blue "bookmark" pain scale is for use by health care professionals; the
yellow "checklist" version is for lay people.
View the pain scale order form as a PDF file.
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