A Comparison between behavioral and verbal report pain assessment tools for use with residents in long term care

Pain Management Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kaasalainen, Sharon ^a   Akhtar Danesh, Noori ^a   Hadjistavropoulos, Thomas ^b   Zwakhalen, Sandra ^c   Verreault, Rene ^d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84889092812     PISSN: 15249042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmn.2011.08.006     Document Type: Article

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