• Dimens Crit Care Nurs · Nov 2003

    Clinical Trial

    Assessing pain control in nonverbal critically ill adults.

    • Margaret Odhner, Deborah Wegman, Nancy Freeland, Ann Steinmetz, and Gail L Ingersoll.
    • Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York, USA.
    • Dimens Crit Care Nurs. 2003 Nov 1;22(6):260-7.

    AbstractThe accurate assessment of pain in nonverbal patients is difficult, with nurses often relying on a variety of methods to determine medication impact. Much of the evidence to date suggests that commonly used indicators of pain may not effectively measure the true extent of distress in patients unable to verbalize their level of discomfort. A recent pilot study of an existing and newly developed pain assessment scale reinforces this concern.

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