Determining mild, moderate, and severe pain equivalency across pain-intensity tools in nursing home residents

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 305-314

  Jones, Katherine R ^a   Vojir, Carol P ^a   Hutt, Evelyn ^b,d   Fink, Regina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia; Elderly; Faces Pain Scale; Numeric Rating Scale; Nursing homes; Pain assessment; Pain intensity; Pain intensity tools; Pain level equivalency; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

DEMENTIA; FACES PAIN SCALE (FPS); NUMERIC RATING SCALE; NURSING HOMES; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN INTENSITY; PAIN INTENSITY TOOLS; PAIN LEVEL EQUIVALENCY;

PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REHABILITATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACES PAIN SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUMERIC RATING SCALE; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN INTENSITY TOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VERBAL DESCRIPTOR SCALE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34250001061     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 07487711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2006.05.0051     Document Type: Article

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