Behavioral pain assessment and the Face, Legs, Activity, Cry and Consolability instrument

Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 317-325

  Voepel Lewis, Terri ^a   Malviya, Shobha ^a   Merkel, Sandra ^a   Tait, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Cognitively impaired; FLACC pain tool; Measurement pain assessment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRYING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0038003818     PISSN: 14737167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737167.3.3.317     Document Type: Review

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