The nurses used 3 instruments for patient evaluation: CPOT, the Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability (FLACC) scale, and the Observational Visual Analog Scale (VAS). VAS was administered before ...

Together with the COMFORT scale to validate NFCS and with the PIPP to validate BPSN, and also with the FLACC to validate MAPS in children aged 0-31 months. 17 Therefore, VAS was one of the scales more ...