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Since pain is a subjective matter, it is important for health care providers to properly assess the pain in order to effectively treat the patient. The following are some of the tools that clinicians and patients use to assess the severity of pain. These tools help in identifying not only the intensity of pain that the patient might be feeling, but also help to assess the efficacy of pain management therapies.
Visual Analog Scale (VAS)
Happy/Sad Faces
Numeric Pain Intensity Scale
Simple Descriptive Pain Intensity Scale
