J Rheumatol 34: 8–18 Researchers from the US have shown that the visual analog pain scale (VAS) is superior to the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) scale for assessing ...

Patients were followed using visual analogue pain scales (VAS), site specific validated outcome scores, and a Likert post-treatment scale at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 6 months and a year. A decrease in VAS ...

The proportion of "inconsistent" (background pain intensity ... For these reasons VAS was not considered in our study, which instead focused on VRS and NRS; both scales are easy to use with ...

subscales or Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) pain scores as outcome measures, were included. The minimum clinically important difference (MCID) for WOMAC total, pain, stiffness, function and VAS pain was ...

The researchers found statistically significant improvements across follow-up in Visual Analog Scale (VAS) Average Pain and in VAS Maximum Pain. For both the average and maximum scores ...

From baseline to end of treatment for the two groups, the researchers found no significant between-group differences in mean changes of visual analog scale (VAS) pain, Knee Osteoarthritis Outcome ...