Lifehacker

Is a Digital Scale More Accurate Than Analog?

We’ve all stepped on an old, analog scale and insisted the number was wrong—it must be the scale! But is buying an expensive, new digital scale with all its extra features any more accurate? For the ...
Nature

Visual/verbal analogue scales: Examples of brief assessment methods to aid management of child and adult patients in clinical practice

Once learned this technique can be used in a flexible way for many different purposes. The technique maintains communication with patients when their mouths are full of instruments. Enhances the ...
FierceBiotech

Vince & Associates Clinical Research Continues Collaboration with Cambridge Cognition for Electronic Visual Analog Scales for Hu

Overland Park, Kansas - Vince & Associates Clinical Research, a premier provider of early phase clinical research services with over 100 beds, continues its collaboration with Cambridge Cognition on ...
Nature

Relation between food intake and visual analogue scale ratings of appetite and other sensations in healthy older and young subjects

Objective: Visual analogue scales are widely used in appetite research, yet the validity of these scales to evaluate appetite and mood has not been assessed in older subjects. The aim of this study ...
JSTOR Daily

Feasibility, Validity and Test-Retest Reliability of Scaling Methods for Health States: The Visual Analogue Scale and the Time Trade-Off

The feasibility, validity and reliability of the Time Trade-Off (TTO) and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) methods in obtaining preference values for health states were compared in a random sample of the ...
JSTOR Daily

Is a Single-Item Visual Analogue Scale as Valid, Reliable and Responsive as Multi-Item Scales in Measuring Quality of Life?

Purpose: To compare the validity, reliability and responsiveness of a single, global quality of life question to multi-item scales. Method: Data were obtained from 83 consecutive patients with ...