Assessing patients'pain: identifying reasons for error
- 1 September 1991
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Vol. 16 (9) , 1018-1025
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.1991.tb03361.x
Abstract
Accurate pain assessment is vital for good medical care, and yet the literature indicates that nurses often provide inaccurate and biased estimates of their patients' pain. The following paper reviews the methods used to assess nurses' accuracy, and reasons offered for the errors observed. Practical options for improving pain assessment and pain management are discussed.Keywords
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