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| Pain by numbers | | Author(s) | Eveline Johnson |
| Journal title | Nursing Times, vol 94, no 35, 2-8 September 1998 |
| Pages | pp 34-35 |
| Keywords | Pain ; Evaluation ; Drugs ; Services ; Long term ; Aberdeen. |
| Annotation | Pain is difficult to assess since every person's perception of it is unique, and it is influenced by factors such as family and social conditioning, religion, culture, age and gender, and personality. The author of this article, winner in the acute category of the Nursing Times Care of Older People Awards, describes the use of a pain assessment tool in a long-term care unit in Aberdeen. The McCaffery and Beebe's vertical visual analogue scale was used to assess pain in a male patient aged 85 years. It was found that the assessment scale helped to interpret the patient's level of pain intensity and assisted in regulating analgesia for pain control. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980907202 A |
| Classmark | CT7: 4C: LLD: I: 4Q: 9ND * |
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