Health care professionals' pain narratives in hospitalized children's medical records. Part 2: Structure and content.

CONCLUSIONS:<⁄span> The present qualitative analysis revealed the multidimensionality of structure and content that was used to document hospitalized children's acute pain. The findings have the potential to inform debate on whether the multidimensionality of pain narratives' composition is a desirable feature of documentation and how narratives can be refined and improved. There is potential for further investigation into how health care professionals' pain narratives could have a role in generating guidelines for best pain documentation practice beyond numerical representations of pain intensity. PMID: 24093123 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Pain Research and Management - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Pain Res Manag Source Type: research