The reliability of vital signs in estimating pain severity among adult patients treated by paramedics

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-150

  Lord, Bill ^a   Woollard, Malcolm ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUMERIC RATING SCALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VITAL SIGN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITAL SIGNS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751591040     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.079384     Document Type: Article

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