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Assessment Procedures

The psychometric properties of an Arabic numeric pain rating scale for measuring osteoarthritis knee pain

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Pages 2392-2397 | Received 17 Feb 2015, Accepted 04 Dec 2015, Published online: 06 Jan 2016

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