Pain Measurement - Nursing
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Older adults' pain communication: the effect of interruption.

30 Aug 2009 The effect of interrupting older adults as they talk about their osteoarthritis pain was examined in a secondary analysis using a nonrandomized two-group design. Participants were part of a study in which older adults orally responded to a series of ... Read more...

Understanding the paradox of patient pain and patient satisfaction.

6 Jul 2009 Pain, in all probability, is the most common symptom experienced by individuals who interact with health care providers. It is understood as a complex and highly individual experience. This complexity is reflected in the paradoxical relationship ... Read more...

Pain management: an adolescent scoliosis patient.

29 Jun 2009 Recovery units can be busy environments not often conducive to reflective practice. Reflection is, however, an important aspect of high quality care. Using Gibbs model of reflection (see Figure 1), applied to the experience of caring for a 15 year ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pain Measurement - Nursing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Older adults' pain communication: the effect of interruption. 30 Aug 2009
• Understanding the paradox of patient pain and patient satisfaction. 6 Jul 2009
• Pain management: an adolescent scoliosis patient. 29 Jun 2009
• Assessment and management of patients with wound-related pain. 29 Jun 2009
• Influences on nurses' scoring of children's post-operative pain. 30 May 2009
• The ten commandments of pain assessment and management in preterm neonates. 30 May 2009
• Family caregiver skills in medication management for hospice patients: a qualitative study to define a construct. 21 May 2009
• Clinical approaches to special issues related to opioid therapy. 29 Apr 2009
• Measuring pain in adolescents. 29 Apr 2009
• Why does "pain management" exclude psychic pain? 29 Apr 2009
• Psychiatric patients: how can we decide if you are in pain? 29 Apr 2009
• The COMFORT behavioural scale and the modified FLACC scale in paediatric intensive care. 29 Apr 2009
• Assessing the pain of people with a learning disability. 30 Mar 2009
• Pain assessment tools for unconscious or sedated intensive care patients: a systematic review. 7 Mar 2009
• Older adults' pain descriptions. 26 Feb 2009
• [Impact of a pre-operative mobilisation program using the Viv-Arte training model based on kinesthetic mobilisation on mobility, pain, and post-operation length of stay of patients receiving an elective medial laparotomy: a prospective, randomised, controlled pilot study] 30 Jan 2009
• Pain assessment and management in surgical nursing: a literature review. 30 Jan 2009
• Documentation of pain management with TT- 2000+ in May 2008 viewed from clinical nursing practice. 30 Dec 2008
• Physiology and treatment of pain. 29 Nov 2008
• A cancer pain primer. 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Pain Measurement'

Definition: Scales, questionnaires, tests, and other methods used to assess pain severity and duration in patients or experimental animals to aid in diagnosis, therapy, and physiological studies.

Descriptor UI: D010147

Alternative terms: Pain Measurement; Measurement, Pain; Measurements, Pain; Pain Measurements; Pain Assessment; Nociception Tests; Nociception Test; Test, Nociception; Tests, Nociception; Analgesia Tests; Analgesia Test; Test, Analgesia; Tests, Analgesia; Assessment, Pain; Assessments, Pain; Pain Assessments; Visual Analog Scale; Scale, Visual Analog; Scales, Visual Analog; Visual Analog Scales; Visual Analogue Pain Scale; Visual Analogue Scale; Analogue Scale, Visual; Analogue Scales, Visual; Scale, Visual Analogue; Scales, Visual Analogue; Visual Analogue Scales; Visual Analog Pain Scale; McGill Pain Questionnaire; Pain Questionnaire, McGill; Questionnaire, McGill Pain; McGill Pain Scale; Pain Scale, McGill; Scale, McGill Pain; Tourniquet Pain Test; Pain Test, Tourniquet; Pain Tests, Tourniquet; Test, Tourniquet Pain; Tests, Tourniquet Pain; Tourniquet Pain Tests; Analogue Pain Scale; Analogue Pain Scales; Pain Scale, Analogue; Pain Scales, Analogue; Scale, Analogue Pain; Scales, Analogue Pain; Analog Pain Scale; Analog Pain Scales; Pain Scale, Analog; Pain Scales, Analog; Scale, Analog Pain; Scales, Analog Pain; Formalin Test; Formalin Tests; Test, Formalin; Tests, Formalin;

Related Mesh Headings: Sensory Thresholds; Pain Threshold;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; drug effects; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; radiation effects; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E01.370.376.550.600;

History Note: 87