A Common Metric in Triaging and Diagnosing Illness Is a Pain

question 12

Multiple Choice

A common metric in triaging and diagnosing illness is a pain scale.Generally,patients report how much pain they are in on a scale of 1 to 10.These scales can be reinterpreted as an attempt to overcome which difficulty?

• A) Lewis's problem of pain
• B) interpersonal comparisons of utility
• C) cardinal measurements of utility
• D) Mohs's hardness scale

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