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 ...

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 of Ontario (RNAO ...

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 ...

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 ...

Table 1. Description and outline of the advantages and disadvantages of the most commonly used pain assessment tools. Pain assessment tool Description Advantages Disadvantages Verbal rating scale ...

Algorithmic assessment tools are a serious threat to disability rights. An inescapable tension exists between an algorithm’s use of big population-level data and the highly individualized ...

Neonatal pain assessment and management presents a challenge for clinical staff worldwide. Over 40 rating scales have been developed and adapted worldwide assessing different parameters and ...

Standard tools for pain assessment and evaluation, which typically rely on a patient's own verbal report, may be ineffective for critically ill patients who are unable to communicate.