Health care professionals' pain narratives in hospitalized children's medical records. Part 1: Pain descriptors.

CONCLUSIONS:<⁄span> The richness and complexity of vocabulary used by clinicians to document children's pain lend support to the concept that the word 'pain' is a label that represents a myriad of different experiences. There is potential to refine pediatric pain assessment measures to be inclusive of other cues used to identify children's pain. The results enhance the discussion concerning the development of standardized nomenclature. Further research is warranted to determine whether there is congruence in interpretation across time, place and individuals. PMID: 24093122 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Pain Research and Management - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Pain Res Manag Source Type: research