The Journal of Pain
Volume 6, Issue 9 , Pages 630-636 , September 2005

Improving Subjective Scaling of Pain Using Rasch Analysis

  • Konrad Pesudovs

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Konrad Pesudovs, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA 5045, Australia
    • ,
  • Bruce A. Noble

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Clarendon Wing, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Belmont Grove, Leeds, Great Britain

Received 20 January 2005 ,Revised 8 April 2005 ,Accepted 13 April 2005.

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 Konrad Pesudovs is supported by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley Fellowship 0061, Canberra, Australia.

PII: S1526-5900(05)00594-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2005.04.001

The Journal of Pain
Volume 6, Issue 9 , Pages 630-636 , September 2005

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