Sunday, February 19, 2012: 10:00 AM
Room 211 (VCC West Building)
Human pain reports are viewed by many as ‘subjective assessments of otherwise unmeasurable experiences’; however, various strategies have been developed to provide reliable and valid measures of clinical pain. Pain is a multidimensional experience that can be described in terms of both sensory intensity and unpleasantness qualities and can be further characterized physiologically and psychologically. The presentation will review strategies to improve clinical pain assessment.