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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Published in:Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 260 - 268
Main Authors: Odhner M, Wegman D, Freeland N, Steinmetz A, Ingersoll GL
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Nov/Dec2003
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