Volume 29, Issue 158, April 2025

Pain rating scales – practical approach

Dagmara Skowrońska^1,2♦, Katarzyna Cierpiszewska³, Jakub Klamecki⁴, Aleksandra Garczyk⁵, Dominika Kuc⁶

¹Department of Teaching Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 61-861 Poznan, Poland
²University Clinical Hospital in Poznan, Grunwaldzka 55, 60-352 Poznan, Poland
³Independent Public Health Care, ul. Sukiennicza 13, 64-500, Szamotuły, Poland
⁴Independent Public Health Care, ul. Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego 11, 62-040 Puszczykowo, Poland
⁵Multispecialist Municipal Hospital, Szwajcarska 3, 61-285, Poznan, Poland
⁶Provincial Hospital in Poznan, ul. Juraszów 7/19, 60-479, Poznan, Poland

^♦Corresponding author:
Dagmara Skowrońska Department of Teaching Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 61-861, Poznan, Poland

ABSTRACT

Pain management is the responsibility of doctors in every specialty. It should be noted that without a good pain assessment, there is no proper pain treatment. Therefore, the authors of this work attempted to organize pain assessment tools according to the clinical situation. Databases such as PubMed and Google Scholar were used to source articles for this review. Literature related to pain measurement was searched without an age limit. Although there are a lot of reports regarding pain intensity measurement tools, in this article, they are sorted out, and we present a breakdown of these tools in terms of clinical practice. A brief description of the most commonly used scales used to measure pain intensity is also provided.

Keywords: pain rating scales, elderly patients, pain management, post-operative pain, pediatrics

Medical Science, 2025, 29, e57ms3548

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v29i158.e57ms3548

Published: 16 April 2025