Exploring Alternative Approaches to Routine Outpatient Pain Screening
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Exploring alternative approaches to routine outpatient pain screening.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate potential alternatives to the numeric rating scale (NRS) for routine pain screening. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Nineteen Veterans Affairs outpatient clinics in Southern California at two hospitals and six community sites. PATIENTS Five hundred twenty-eight veterans from primary care, cardiology, and oncology clinics sampled in proportion to the total number of v...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pain Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1526-2375,1526-4637
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2009.00709.x