Currently used pain assessment tools may be underestimating the pain response in infants according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine this week. Dr Slater and colleagues ...

Acknowledgments. This systematic review of infant pain assessment tools was undertaken by the first author, as part of a 12-week Leadership Fellowship awarded by the Registered Nurses Association ...

Existing HRQOL tools, such as the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire C30 (QLQ-C30), 31 shorter versions of the Short Form-36, 32 and ...

Pain assessment in medicine often relies on imprecise visual rating scales featuring smiling or crying faces, frustrating patients and physicians alike. Children's National Hospital researchers ...

Pain in critical ill patients is a frequent phenomenon. 30-50% of all ICU patients have pain at rest and many patients are unable to express pain verbally. Though most of the patients aren’t able to ...

A newly-published Cochrane review reveals significant gaps in the clinical rating scales used to assess pain in newborn babies, highlighting the urgent need for improved tools and global ...

Pain has many different dimensions, and requires broad assessment skills. Cancer pain assessment involves much more than what it is often reduced to: asking the patient to rate his or her pain on ...

Results 470 studies with 175 different pain assessment tools were mapped against the IOC Athlete Pain Framework. Papers included tools from neurophysiological (470/100%), biomechanical (425/90%), ...