A new diagnostic and outcomes measure may lead to the more accurate assessment and treatment of pain and related symptoms while allowing clinicians to move away from the standard, but less specific, numerical rating scale.
“We came to the understanding that the pain intensity 0-to-10 score was inadequate,” said retired Army Col. Chester Buckenmaier III, MD, the program director of the Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management (DVCIPM), Uniformed Services University,