The Visual Analogue Scale for Pain: A Comparison of Scores Reported to Residents Versus an Attending Foot and Ankle Surgeon.
Rushing CJ et al Foot Ankle Spec. 2019 May 9:1938640019846971
Well, this looks interesting, not least because the conclusion they draw seems to be a direct contradiction of the result they report.
I would love to read the whole thing to understand their reasoning but don't have access.
Could anyone here provide us with a PDF?
Thanks.
So now I have seen this - thank you to the kind member who sent me the PDF - and my suspicions are confirmed.
What's more, the self-contradiction is not the only error.
The paper is all about the reliability of VAS - but the scale they used was not a VAS (i.e an unmarked 10cm line).
Instead they used a numerical scale with the addition of emoticons and descriptive words.
I think this particular paper must have been published on April 1st!
It is so blatant it must be a joke.
Perhaps it was one of those scams put through deliberately to show up the weaknesses of the peer review system.
It certainly succeeded.