Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients reported that the instrument’s questions, recall period and response scale were easy to understand. A ...
Few validated measures exist to quantify sleep disturbance among patients who have the chronic inflammatory skin condition prurigo nodularis. SD NRS scoring ranges from 0 (no sleep loss) to 10 (no ...
The Skin Pain Numeric Rating Scale, Worst-Itch Numeric Rating Scale, and Dermatology Life Quality Index were evaluated for their content validity, fit-for-purpose, and psychometric and measurement ...
Background: Numerical rating scales (NRS), and verbal rating scales (VRS) showed to be reliable and valid tools for subjective cancer pain measurement, but no one of them consistently proved to be ...
How to relieve severe bilateral itching of the arms that has affected a woman for the past 4 years? That's the clinical challenge facing Shawn G. Kwatra, MD, of Johns Hopkins University School of ...
July 16 (Reuters) - Alzheimer's disease experts are revamping the way doctors diagnose patients with the progressive brain disorder - the most common type of dementia - by devising a seven-point ...
Objective: To develop and test the reliability and validity of the State Behavioral Scale for use in describing sedation/agitation levels in young intubated patients supported on mechanical ...