A pain scale is a tool that doctors use to help assess a person’s pain. A person usually self-reports their pain using a specially designed scale, sometimes with the help of a doctor, parent, or ...

It’s an experience that most everyone has had at a doctor or hospital visit, where at some point, usually early on, the question ‘on a scale of 0-10, what’s your level of pain?’ comes up. Then, before ...

Table 1. Description and outline of the advantages and disadvantages of the most commonly used pain assessment tools. Pain assessment tool Description Advantages Disadvantages Verbal rating scale Pain ...

KUTV — The following information is provided by Intermountain Health. May 6-12 is National Nurses Week. During the pandemic many people recognized nurses as working at the hospital bedside and in ...

Patients suffering from cancer could ease their pain levels by using a simple pen and paper bedside chart, a study suggests. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in the UK found that the chart ...

The article by Fallon et al 13 that accompanies this editorial illustrates the use of an implementation research strategy. Findings are reported from a study in which 19 cancer inpatient units in the ...