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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