RUDN Journal of Medicine (Mar 2012)

Influence of gender on objectivization of pain syndrome

  • I V Kastyro

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 1
pp. 83 – 87

Abstract

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In this study, efficacy of a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), of a Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) and of a Lightning Scale (LS) proposed by authors in measurement of pain of ENT patients were compared. Following correlation coefficients were obtained: R = 0.8011 (VAS vs. LS), R = 0.8317 (NRS vs. LS), R = 0.8395 (VAS vs. NRS). Lightning Scale can be suggested for urgent ENT for diagnosing and selection of analgesic.

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