The Visual Analogue Scale for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (VAS-IBS) questionnaire was designed to measure the treatment response of symptoms and well-being in patients suffering from IBS. Methods ...

House dust mites (HDMs) are the most common cause of atopic sensitivities and allergic diseases worldwide. Therefore, we decided to conduct a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials to evaluate ...

In chronic low back pain, botulinum neurotoxin type A improved patients' pain and functional outcomes vs placebo and other local injection therapies.

A study found that the intraoperative use of remifentanil and sufentanil was linked to poor postoperative pain outcomes in ...

A study published in the American College of Rheumatology’s journal Open Rheumatology found that medical marijuana may help alleviate chronic pain in patients with hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD ...

To help you avoid a few of the more common and onerous problems, we will explore two separate but related questionnaire-design issues: matrix questions, especially the big, scary kind, and unbalanced ...

much more difficulty breathing" on a 5-point Likert scale, compared with the most recent measurement. This process was repeated until the patient was no longer dyspneic, was discharged ...

The impact of insomnia on patients’ daytime functioning was measured daily using the Insomnia Daytime Symptoms and Impacts Questionnaire (IDSIQ). Improvements in sTST, quality and depth of sleep, and ...

VLMs have shown notable progress in perception-driven tasks such as visual question answering (VQA) and document-based visual reasoning. However, their effectiveness in reasoning-intensive tasks ...

The treatment session lasted 300 seconds (five minutes). The patient’s mood and anxiety levels were assessed before and after the stimulation using visual analog scales (VAS, which is a psychometric ...