OPQRST is considered a focused assessment for the evaluation of pain which has brought the patient in for this particular event. What type of questions relate to what the patient was doing when the signs and symptoms first started to occur??
A) Quality of pain
B) Time
C) Onset
D) Provocational pain
C
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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