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17. Appendix F – Pain Rating
Enables advanced options for monitoring Patient Response: customized range for numerical
pain rating scale, multiple ratings per trial.
17.1 Pain Rating Parameters Configuration
Pain rating is available only for Ramp & Hold program.
Advanced parameters available with pain rating license can be configured while creating or
editing any Ramp & Hold program.
The following options can be configured:
Figure 111: Pain Rating Parameters
Enable Pain Rating checkbox – When checked enables pain rating patient response
First pain rating –determines the time of the first pain rating.
Default value is "0", meaning that the first pain rating will occur at the end of the trial.
Pain rating interval – determines the interval between pain ratings.
Default value is "0", meaning there will be only one pain rating in trial, at time determined by
first pain rating parameter value.
Note: The amount of paint ratings in trial is determined by combination of first pain rating,
pain rating interval and duration time parameters value. For example, if the duration time of
the trial is 20 sec, first pain rating value is 5 sec and pain rating interval value is 5 sec, there
will be 4 pain ratings in the trial 5, 10, 15 and 20 sec after reaching the destination
temperature.
Waiting time for response – determines the time for which the pain rating dialog will remain
on the screen waiting for user to respond.
In addition, Pain rating limits can be configured from Test Configuration tab in Test Settings
window:
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