1. The Impact of Pain and Itch on Functioning and Health-Related Quality of Life in Systemic Sclerosis: An Exploratory Study 
Mélanie Racine, PhD, Marie Hudson, MD, MPH, Murray Baron, MD, Warren R. Nielson, PhD J. Pope, J. Markland, D. Robinson, N. Jones, N. Khalidi, P. Docherty, E. Kaminska, A. Masseto, E. Sutton, J.-P. Mathieu, S. Ligier, T. Grodzicky, C. Thorne, G. Gyger, D. Smith, P.R. Fortin, M. Larché Mélanie Racine, PhD, Marie Hudson, MD, MPH, Murray Baron, MD, Warren R. Nielson, PhD J. Pope, J. Markland, D. Robinson, N. Jones, N. Khalidi, P. Docherty, E. Kaminska, A. Masseto, E. Sutton, J.-P. Mathieu, S. Ligier, T. Grodzicky, C. Thorne, G. Gyger, D. Smith, P.R. Fortin, M. Larché 
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 
Volume 52, Issue 1, Pages (July 2016)
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2. Fig. 1
Box-and-whisker plots demonstrating interquartile range (box), median (line), range (whisker), and outliers (dots) of pain and itch severity in a sample of 964 patients with SSc. SSc = systemic sclerosis; NRS = numerical rating scale.
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3. Fig. 2
Illustration of the effect of pain NRS value on outcome variables at the itch NRS values corresponding to 0 (10th to 25th percentiles), 1 (25th to 50th percentiles), 3 (50th to 75th percentiles), and 6 (75th to 90th percentiles). NRS = numerical rating scale; PROMIS = Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement System.
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