Assessing pain control in nonverbal critically ill adults.

The 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...

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Publicado en:Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 260 - 268
Autores principales: Odhner M, Wegman D, Freeland N, Steinmetz A, Ingersoll GL
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Nov/Dec2003
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          Freeland N
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          Ingersoll GL
        affil: Burn Trauma Unit, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York; Gail_Ingersoll@urmc.rochester.edu
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          Critical Care Nursing
          Critically Ill Patients
          Instrument Construction
          Instrument Validation
          Pain Measurement
          Pain Prevention and Control
          Scales
          Adolescence
          Adult
          Aged
          Aged, 80 and Over
          Analysis of Variance
          Burn Patients
          Chi Square Test
          Coefficient alpha
          Content Validity
          Convenience Sample
          Descriptive Statistics
          Female
          Intensive Care Units
          Interrater Reliability
          Intubation, Intratracheal
          Male
          Middle Age
          Multitrait-Multimethod
          New York
          Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
          Pilot Studies
          Sedation
          T-Tests
          Validation Studies
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          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Aged: 65+ years
          Aged, 80 & over
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Female
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      ab: The 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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