The comprehensive pain assessment should be performed when patients present with pain to the healthcare setting and at the onset of new acute pain.

An integral part of this endeavour is to instruct pain psychologists on the principles at the heart of assessment and measurement of pain. In this brief presentation I will spotlight some of the ...

Conclusions: When choosing a pain assessment tool, one must also consider the infant population and setting, and the type of pain experienced. The decision should be made after carefully ...

The front page of the Brief Pain Inventory, an assessment tool that Dr. Farrar turns to a lot in research and patient settings. “Instead of just asking how much pain do you have, you need to think ...

This can be done using observational pain assessment tools. Observational tools. Several observational pain assessment tools have been produced, including: The Abbey Pain Scale (Abbey et al, 2004); ...

The Joint Commission is revising pain “assessment and management standards” for behavioral health care, home care and nursing care center programs in the wake of the nation’s opioid crisis.

Since 2017, an Intermountain has worked with more than 500 patients, parents, and caregivers to design and develop this comprehensive tool to assess pediatric pain.

In all, 2,302 patients presented to Beaumont’s ED with acute chest pain and underwent coronary CTA from September 2015 to February 2018. Out of 555 patients who had sufficient image quality and met ...

While pain may initially increase, regular exercise will help reduce pain and increase function in the long term (NICE, 2022b). Behaviour change approaches, such as goal setting, action planning and ...