J Rheumatol 34: 8–18 Researchers from the US have shown that the visual analog pain scale (VAS) is superior to the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) scale for assessing ...

The proportion of "inconsistent" (background pain intensity ... For these reasons VAS was not considered in our study, which instead focused on VRS and NRS; both scales are easy to use with ...

Patients were followed using visual analogue pain scales (VAS), site specific validated outcome scores, and a Likert post-treatment scale at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months and a year. A decrease in VAS ...

Each expert panel member graded the content relevance, agreement of the definition of the item, and the relevance of the scale for each of the nine items in the VAS-IBS, [38] on a four point scale ...

Patient-reported measures were obtained at baseline. Pain severity (100 mm visual analogue scale (VAS)), function (Anterior Knee Pain Scale (AKPS)) and self-reported recovery were measured 5–8 years ...

From baseline to end of treatment for the two groups, the researchers found no significant between-group differences in mean changes of visual analog scale (VAS) pain, Knee Osteoarthritis Outcome ...