On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:01:59PM -0500, Greg Harris wrote: > Not that it's dispositive of any larger issue, but doesn't VAS > actually record a physical quantity (specifically, the centimeter > position on the horizontal line where the patient indicates the level > of pain)?
7 centimeters of pain ? No, that's just a device, a metaphor, basically. It does add a bit of comparability, though. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346