These include: Hospital lifetime reserve days: Medicare Part A covers a stay in the hospital for any single spell of illness or injury within a time frame of 90 days. This is known as a benefit period, and thereâs no limit to the number of benefit periods you can have. But if you need to stay in the hospital for more than 90 days with the same illness or injury, you have the option of using some of your 60 lifetime reserve days.
Pain measures fall into 2 categories: 1  Single-dimensional scales - These scales assess a single dimension of pain and, through patient self-reporting, measure only pain intensity; these scales are useful in acute pain when the etiology is clear; see the image below Faces Pain Rating Scale.
However, there are two new assessment tools that have been added to the diagnostic criteria: the widespread pain index (WPI) and the symptom severity (SS) scale score. The WPI lists 19 areas of the body in which a person may have had pain in the week prior to the examination. The individual identifies the areas of pain to the doctor and the score is between 0-19. The SS scale score is established as the person ranks specific symptoms associated with FMS on a scale of 0-3: Â· 0 = no problem Â· 1 = slight or mild problems, generally mild or intermittent