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Nurs. Clin. North Am. · Sep 2016
ReviewPain Assessment in Noncommunicative Adult Palliative Care Patients.
- Deborah B McGuire, Karen Snow Kaiser, Mary Ellen Haisfield-Wolfe, and Florence Iyamu.
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing, 1100 East Leigh Street, PO Box 980567, Richmond, VA 23298, USA. Electronic address: dbmcguire@vcu.edu.
- Nurs. Clin. North Am. 2016 Sep 1; 51 (3): 397-431.
AbstractPalliative care patients who have pain are often unable to self-report their pain, placing them at increased risk for underrecognized and undertreated pain. Use of appropriate pain assessment tools significantly enhances the likelihood of effective pain management and improved pain-related outcomes. This paper reviews selected tools and provides palliative care clinicians with a practical approach to selecting a pain assessment tool for noncommunicative adult patients.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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