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In neurocritical care, however, critically ill patients with stroke may be unable to communicate because of aphasia, impaired consciousness, sedation, mechanical ventilation, or delirium. Under these conditions, the absence of a numerical score may reflect limitations in the systems through which pain is made visible rather than the absence of pain. This paper offers an empirically informed philosophical analysis of what a missing numerical pain score means in neurocritical care and asks how nursing can preserve clinically and ethically meaningful distinctions when a number cannot be responsibly produced. As an empirical point of departure, an extracted adult ischaemic\u2010stroke ICU\u2010stay dataset from MIMIC\u2010IV (6054 ICU stays, 5065 patients) was used, focusing on the first pain score, defined as the earliest documented numerical pain score within the first 24\u2009h after ICU admission among patients with stroke. 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