Evaluation of pain associated with oral
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David Cella; Janis Pulliam; Henry Fuchs; Carole Miller; David Hurd; John R. Wing
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND No single oral mucositis (OM) assessment scale is universally accepted; the most commonly used scales are deficient because they combine subjective and objective measures and do not capture the patient's perspective. Because pain is the hallmark symptom of OM, the authors