Background: Numerical rating scales (NRS), and verbal rating scales (VRS) showed to be reliable and valid tools for subjective cancer pain measurement, but no one of them consistently proved to be ...

Rating scales are important instruments used to measure peoples attitudes towards a variety of stimuli including politicians, organisations, products, services, places, institutions, and ...

This paper proposes a method of designing a statistically distinguishable rating scale that is not excessive in relation to the existing observation statistics. This allows for more stable validation ...

Pain scales are tools for people to describe the level of pain they experience. Healthcare workers can also use pain scale charts to assess patients. There are several different pain scales, each with ...

Organisations spend inordinate amounts of time designing and redesigning rating scales, but the goal of achieving objective and equitable assessments continues to elude them. Many organisations, in an ...