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Reliability of memory of pain concerns the correlation for a group of patients between the report of pain at the time of its occurrence, for example, a score on a rating scale, and the estimate of that score at a later time (the remembered pain). Accuracy refers to the extent of agreement between records of the original event and the corresponding memory for an individual. According to this distinction, memories may be reliable but not accurate.
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(2013). Accuracy and Reliability of Memory. In: Gebhart, G.F., Schmidt, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28753-4_200015
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