Journal article
The Postoperative Pain Assessment Skills Pilot Trial
Abstract
BACKGROUND⁄
OBJECTIVES: Pain-related misbeliefs among health care professionals (HCPs) are common and contribute to ineffective postoperative pain assessment. While standardized patients (SPs) have been effectively used to improve HCPs' assessment skills, not all centres have SP programs. The present equivalence randomized controlled pilot trial examined the efficacy of an alternative simulation method - deteriorating patient-based simulation …
Authors
McGillion M; Dubrowski A; Stremler R; Watt-Watson J; Campbell F; McCartney C; Victor JC; Wiseman J; Snell L; Costello J
Journal
Pain Research and Management, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 433–439
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
January 2011
DOI
10.1155/2011/278397
ISSN
1203-6765