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	Scala del Dolore Comportamentale FLACC	Scala per il Dolore Neuropatico
Campo	Medicina del dolore	Medicina del dolore
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1997	2007
Ideatore	Shelly I. Merkel and Terri Voepel-Lewis	Mark P. Jensen and colleagues
Tipo	Behavioral observation scale for acute pain in children and nonverbal patients	Self-report scale measuring neuropathic pain quality and intensity
Fonte seminale	Merkel, S.I., Voepel-Lewis, T., Shayevitz, J.R., & Malviya, S. (1997). The FLACC: A behavioral scale for scoring postoperative pain in young children. Pediatric Nursing, 23(3), 293-297.	Kramer, H.H., Winkelmann, A., Sluka, K.A., & Malin, S.A. (2004). Neuropathic pain: Transmitter-based mechanisms to pharmacological intervention. Journal of Pain, 5(4), 204-221.
Alias	FLACC, FLACC Scale	NPS, Neuropathic Pain Scale
Correlati	3	4
Sintesi	The FLACC Behavioral Pain Scale (Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability) is a 5-item observational tool developed by Merkel and Voepel-Lewis in 1997 to assess acute pain in children ages 2 months to 7 years who are unable to self-report pain. Each of the five behavioral domains is scored 0-2, yielding a total score of 0-10. The FLACC is widely used in pediatric hospitals, recovery rooms, and intensive care units for postoperative and acute pain assessment.	The Neuropathic Pain Scale (NPS) is a 10-item self-report instrument developed by Jensen and colleagues to measure the quality and intensity of pain associated with neuropathic conditions (nerve damage, peripheral neuropathy, post-herpetic neuralgia, spinal cord injury pain). The NPS captures pain descriptors (sharp, cold, burning, sensitive, itching) and sensations characteristic of neuropathic pain, distinguishing them from nociceptive (tissue-damage-related) pain.