What is the best way to account for badness of pain and what sort theory welfare suited accommodate this view? I argue that unpleasant sensory experiences are prudentially bad in absence contrary attitudes, but good when object positive attitudes. Pain unless it liked, enjoyed, valued etc. Interestingly, view incompatible with either pure objectivist or subjectivist understandings welfare. Howe...

conclusions the ops is a good stand-alone pain score and is better than the nrs for defining mild and moderate pain. it may even be used to supplement nrs when it is indicative of mild or moderate pain. patient and methods a total of 1021 paired readings of the ops and nrs of 93 patients who underwent laparotomy and used patient-controlled analgesia were evaluated. acute pain service (aps) pers...