What Is Typically the Most Reliable Indicator of Pain

question 43

Multiple Choice

What is typically the most reliable indicator of pain?

• A) Patient's self-report
• B) Past medical history
• C) Description by caregiver(s)
• D) Behavioral cues

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Definitions:

Test-retest Reliability

Describes the degree to which the results of the same test administered on two separate occasions to the same individuals remain consistent.

Percentile

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.

Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data in which most values cluster around a central mean.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variation from the average in a set of data, indicating how spread out the numbers are.