Rating your pain from 0 to 10 might not help your doctor

The most commonly used measure for pain screening -- which asks patients in primary care to rate their current pain from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain) -- may only be modestly accurate, according to researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina.

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