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

Amélia Pasqual Marques, Ana Assumpção, Luciana Akemi Matsutani, Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira, Laís V. Lage

PubMed · 2009 · 54 citations · 0 references

Abstract

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.