Journal article
Pain and discomfort associated with common hospital procedures and experiences
Abstract
To determine whether reliable and valid rankings of pain and discomfort resulting from hospital procedures encountered by advanced dementia patients could be developed from interviews with cognitively intact adults, rankings of pain and discomfort resulting from 16 common procedures were obtained from two samples of hospitalized, nondemented adults using ten- (N = 100) and five- (N = 35) point numeric rating scales (NRS). Reliability was …
Authors
Morrison RS; Ahronheim JC; Morrison GR; Darling E; Baskin SA; Morris J; Choi C; Meier DE
Journal
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 91–101
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
2 1998
DOI
10.1016/s0885-3924(98)80006-7
ISSN
0885-3924