Pain has always been in the eye of the beholder. Doctors evaluating patients, as well as scientists studying pain, have had to rely on subjective descriptions, making pain notoriously difficult to ...

In response to Ann Abramowitz’s call for objectively measuring vouchers before considering them a success [“Voucher program calls for objective evaluation,” July 17], one of the difficulties with ...

The degree to which a surgical patient's subconscious processing of pain, or "nociception," is properly managed by their anesthesiologist will directly affect the degree of post-operative drug side ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to predict how much pain people are feeling by looking at images of their brains, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. For ...

Management experts have debated for decades the most useful way to assess employee performance. In today's businesses, employers tend to rely on a mix of subjective and objective measures as part of a ...