Rauh Katja Halladin, Andersen Rikke Søby, Rosenberg Jacob
Gastroenheden, Kirurgisk Sektion, Herlev Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730 Herlev, Denmark.
Ugeskr Laeger. 2013 Jun 10;175(24):1712-6.
All patients with pain who are admitted to hospitals in Denmark must be assessed for levels of pain. However, it is not certain how pain should be measured. One way to measure pain is to use a visual analogue scale (VAS). This article focuses on how the VAS should be used in clinical practice in the assessment of post-operative pain. Furthermore, other suitable methods are compared with VAS. VAS is particularly useful for clinical research, but for daily clinical practice it may be easier to use a numeric rating scale.
所有因疼痛入住丹麦医院的患者都必须接受疼痛程度评估。然而，尚不确定应如何测量疼痛。测量疼痛的一种方法是使用视觉模拟量表（VAS）。本文重点关注VAS在临床实践中应如何用于评估术后疼痛。此外，还将VAS与其他合适的方法进行了比较。VAS对临床研究特别有用，但对于日常临床实践，使用数字评定量表可能更容易。
