Reliability of the Faces, Legs, Activity, Cry, and Consolability Scale in Assessing Acute Pain in the Pediatric Emergency Department

Abstract

The FLACC scale demonstrated high interrater reliability for both individual FLACC items and total scores in a convenience sample of patients aged 6 months to 5 years in a pediatric emergency department. It seems to be an appropriate observational tool to assess acute pain in this population.