Australasian emergency care
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Australas Emerg Care · Jun 2020
The role of cognitive impairment in pain care in the emergency department for patients from residential aged care facilities: a retrospective, case-control study.
Patients with cognitive impairment are at risk of substantial delays to analgesic medication when presenting to the emergency department in pain. ⋯ Patients presenting from residential caged care facilities in this study without cogitative impairment wait longer for analgesia then patients who present with cogitative impairment, contrary to previously described relationships. Pain assessment and treatment are open to cogitative bias, and in the absence of pain assessment cogitative bias may prevail leading to poor pain care and discrepancies between patients with and without cogitative impairment.