{"id":2200,"date":"2018-05-23T20:06:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:00:03","slug":"pain-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/pain-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Numeric Pain Rating Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The numeric rating scale (NRS) is a single 11-point numeric scale\u00a0broadly validated across myriad patient types. Data obtained via NRS\u00a0are easily documented, intuitively interpretable, and meet regulatory\u00a0requirements for pain assessment and documentation.<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NRS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color: #07ba0a; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>0<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #5ce612; text-align: center;\"><strong>1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #aaf20f; text-align: center;\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #aaf20f; text-align: center;\"><strong>3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #c8f20a; text-align: center;\"><strong>4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #eddd02; text-align: center;\"><strong>5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2c707; text-align: center;\"><strong>6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #f59d05; text-align: center;\"><strong>7<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #f59d05; text-align: center;\"><strong>8<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #f77e05; text-align: center;\"><strong>9<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #f70525; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>10<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0No pain<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0worst<br \/>\npossible<br \/>\npain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The pain scores are interpreted as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>0 = no pain<\/li>\n<li>1\u20133 = mild pain<\/li>\n<li>4\u20136 = moderate pain<\/li>\n<li>7\u201310 = severe pain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Karcioglu O, Topacoglu H, Dikme O, Dikme O.\u00a0A systematic review of the pain scales in adults: Which to use?\u00a0Am J Emerg Med. 2018 Apr;36(4):707-714. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29321111\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ferreira-Valente MA, Pais-Ribeiro JL, Jensen MP.\u00a0Validity of four pain intensity rating scales.\u00a0Pain. 2011 Oct;152(10):2399-404. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/21856077\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Crisman E, Appenzeller-Herzog C, Tabakovic S, Nickel CH, Minotti B. Multidimensional versus unidimensional pain scales for the assessment of analgesic requirement in the emergency department: a systematic review. Intern Emerg Med. 2024 Aug;19(5):1463-1471. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38664325\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created May 21, 2018.<br \/>\nUp-date Feb 12, 2026.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[433,452,461,462,463,432,464,457],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anesthesiology","tag-dolor","tag-escala","tag-nrs","tag-numeric","tag-numerica","tag-pain","tag-rating","tag-scale"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10664,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/10664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}