"It's really sore," my (Josh's) five-year-old daughter said, cradling her broken arm in the emergency department. "But on a scale of 0 to 10, how do you rate your pain?" asked the nurse. My daughter's ...

Do pain scales truly improve acute pain management in the ED? These results lead to a serious question regarding the true meaning of pain scores: "which scores on a single-item pain scale signify ...

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort. For years at Orchard Care Homes, a 23‑facility dementia-care chain in northern England, Cheryl Baird ...

I have been in pain every day since I was 20 years old because of what I now know to be a genetic disorder of my connective tissue. As a result, I’ve been asked approximately one zillion times by ...