Acta Reumatol Port

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Acta Reumatol Port · Jul 2008

Pain in fibromyalgia and discrimination power of the instruments: Visual Analog Scale, Dolorimetry and the McGill Pain Questionnaire.

The aim of this study was to verify the discriminative power of the most widely used pain assessment instruments. ⋯ VAS presented the higher sensibility, specificity and AUC, showing the greatest discriminative power among the instruments. However, these values are considerably similar to those of Dolorimetry.

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