Pain scales are tools for people to describe the level of pain they experience. Healthcare workers can also use pain scale charts to assess patients. There are several different pain scales, each with ...

The Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating scale is a self-assessment tool that helps communication about physical pain. It uses a combination of faces, numbers, and words, providing multiple ways for a person ...

(Reuters Health) - Asking patients in the emergency room to rate their pain on a visual scale or to rank it from zero to 10 doesn’t really convey what the patient is feeling, suggests a study from ...