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MeSH Heading: Pain Measurement
Tree Number(s): E01.370.600.550.324
Unique ID: D010147
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010147
Scope Note: Scales, questionnaires, tests, and other methods used to assess pain severity and duration in patients or experimental animals to aid in diagnosis, therapy, and physiological studies.
Entry Term(s): Analgesia Tests; Analog Pain Scale; Analogue Pain Scale; Assessment, Pain; Formalin Test; McGill Pain Questionnaire; McGill Pain Scale; Nociception Tests; Pain Assessment; Pain Intensity; Pain Severity; Tourniquet Pain Test; Visual Analog Pain Scale; Visual Analogue Pain Scale
Previous Indexing: Pain (1966-1986)
See Also: Pain Threshold; Sensory Thresholds
Public MeSH Note: 87
History Note: 87
Date Established: 1987/01/01
Date of Entry: 1986/03/25
Revision Date: 2021/03/26

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects (AE)

classification (CL)

drug effects (DE)

economics (EC)

ethics (ES)

history (HI)

instrumentation (IS)

methods (MT)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

psychology (PX)

radiation effects (RE)

standards (ST)

statistics & numerical data (SN)

trends (TD)

veterinary (VE)

Concept UI: M0015747
Scope Note: Scales, questionnaires, tests, and other methods used to assess pain severity and duration in patients or experimental animals to aid in diagnosis, therapy, and physiological studies.
Terms: Pain Measurement Preferred Term
Term UI T030059
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1987); Analgesia Tests
Term UI T030055
Date03/25/1986
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Assessment, Pain
Term UI T030057
Date09/20/1993
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1995); Nociception Tests
Term UI T030056
Date03/25/1986
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Pain Assessment
Term UI T030058
Date04/17/1989
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID IOM (1990)

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