ArticleJournal of feline medicine and surgery2023
Inter-observer reliability of three feline pain scales used in clinical practice.
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- A systematic review of acute pain scoring instruments and their measurement properties in cats and dogs.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2026Article
- Development and Validation of an Owner-Assessed Feline Acute Pain Scale: Validation and Agreement with Veterinary Scales.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Effects of feline personality on pain assessment with two validated behaviour-based scales.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Comparison between AI and human expert performance in acute pain assessment in sheep.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- How facial expressions reveal acute pain in domestic animals with facial pain scales as a diagnostic tool.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- Initial validation of the LSPain scale: a behaviour-based clinical tool for canine lumbosacral pain.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Video-based compilation of acute pain behaviours in cats.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Feline Aortic Thromboembolism: Recent advances and future prospects.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2024Review
- Less experienced observers assess piglet castration-induced acute pain differently than experienced observers: A pilot study.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe present study aimed to evaluate the inter-observer reliability of three feline pain scales commonly used in clinical practice.
methodsTwenty cats undergoing elective neutering surgery were assessed both pre- and postoperatively by three independent assessors (a board-certified anaesthetist, a veterinary anaesthesia nurse and a final-year veterinary student) using three different pain scales: the Glasgow Feline Composite Measure Pain Scale (CMPS - Feline), the Colorado State University Feline Acute Pain Scale (CSU - FAPS) and the Feline Grimace Scale (FGS). Reliability statistics was used to evaluate the level of agreement between assessors.
resultsTwenty-seven groups of paired observations were evaluated, of which 16 (59%) showed fair agreement, eight (30%) showed none to slight agreement and the remaining three (11%) showed moderate agreement based on Cohen's weighted kappa statistics. Based on Cronbach's alpha statistics, 12 (44%) of the 27 groups of observations showed moderate reliability, 12 (44%) showed poor reliability and the remaining three (11%) showed good reliability. No scale was superior to the others in terms of inter-rater reliability ( CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Despite the usefulness of behavioural pain scales as clinical tools, their users should bear in mind their limitations, particularly the intrinsic subjectivity and potential variability of outcome between assessors with different backgrounds and level of expertise.
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