The patient grumbled and grimaced, but he refused to speak to his doctor.

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 ...

It is a behavioral scale with evidence of interrater reliability and validity. Current guidelines suggest that the multifaceted nature of pain makes the use of a multidimensional assessment tool ...

A cognitive behavioral intervention eased chronic ... with a -1.49-point difference (95% CI -2.46 to -0.52) on the 24-point Pain Catastrophizing Scale six-item short form scale Depression, with ...