title: The language of pain.
abstract: In a well-known advertising campaign, respondents asked to spell "relief" invariably spelled the name of a popular antacid. Three decades ago, an American nurse working in Sweden found less unanimity, however, when it came to the spelling of "pain." Intrigued by the clear distinction that her patients made between pain and ache, Fannie Gaston-Johansson wanted to know more. Did the same differentiation transcend cultural and linguistic divides? Was it possible to develop a simple, word-based tool to reliably quantify pain? Her search for these and other answers would result in outstanding scholarship, a patented invention and history-making achievement.
authors: J E
authors: JE
authors: Mattson
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010146:Pain / Q000145:classification / Q000451:nursing*; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010330:Patents as Topic; D013548:Sweden; D014481:United States