Acute Pain
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 31-37 , March 2008

How patients and physicians rate patients’ pain in a French emergency department using a verbally administered numerical rating scale and a visual analog scale

  • Laetitia Marquié

      Affiliations

    • CERPP, Toulouse, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Université de Toulouse-II le Mirail, 5 allées Antonio Machado, F-31058 Toulouse Cedex 9, France. Tel.: +33 551 503 542.
    • ,
  • Liliana Rico Duarte

      Affiliations

    • LTC, UMR 5551 CNRS, Toulouse, France
    • ,
  • Claudette Mariné

      Affiliations

    • LTC, UMR 5551 CNRS, Toulouse, France
    • ,
  • Dominique Lauque

      Affiliations

    • Département des Urgences, Hôpital Purpan, CHU Toulouse, France
    • ,
  • Paul Clay Sorum

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, United States
    • Department of Pediatrics, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, United States

Received 24 July 2007 ,Revised 23 October 2007 ,Accepted 2 January 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2008.01.003

Acute Pain
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 31-37 , March 2008

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