Rating pain from 0 to 10 may not help much - UPI

A commonly used measure for pain -- rate pain from 0 for no pain to 10 for the worst pain -- may only be modestly accurate, a U.S. study found.

Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina said that accurate pain screening is important because pain symptoms, both serious and not so serious, are among the most common complaints in primary care....