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From: Routine dyspnea assessment and documentation: Nurses’ experience yields wide acceptance

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Dyspnea scale nurses use to record patient reported dyspnea. Anchor terms (None, Unbearable) are from the A1 scale of the Multidimensional Dyspnea Profile, a validated instrument [22]. Intermediate words added at the suggestion of nurses (Mild, Moderate, and Severe) are words frequently used for pain assessment, and placement was consistent with word-scaling data from pain patients and healthy persons [34]

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