Increasing the Frequency and Timeliness of Pain Assessment and Management in Long-Term Care: Knowledge Transfer and Sustained Implementation.

Conclusions. It is feasible to implement regular and systematic pain assessment in LTC. Future research should focus on ensuring effective clinical practices in response to assessment results, and determination of longer-term sustainability. PMID: 27445619 [PubMed - in process]

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Source: Pain Research and Management - July 26, 2016 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Hadjistavropoulos T, Williams J, Kaasalainen S, Hunter PV, Savoie ML, Wickson-Griffiths A Tags: Pain Res Manag Source Type: research