Unrelieved pain in children has several undesirable physical and psychological consequences in the short and longer term. Other effects of unrelieved pain include prolonged hospital stays, more ...

Pain assessment in elderly nursing home residents can be a challenge, as over half of these individuals have dementia, and many are unable to self-report pain. Zwakhalen et al. conducted a systematic ...

We know very little about the incidence of pain among the elderly in nursing homes. In Norway, no requirement is in place for pain to be assessed before or during nursing home admission, nor once a ...

The following is an installment of the "Try This" series published by the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. The content is intended to encourage nurses to understand the ...

Accurate assessment of acute pain is essential for the development of an effective pain management plan. Nurses play a pivotal role in the assessment of pain, owing to the nature of their relationship ...

Many elderly people experience pain and regularly take analgesic medication. Pain is also frequent in people with dementia, particularly those with severe disease. As no robust clinical guidelines are ...

Pain often goes undiagnosed in people with learning disabilities, but a pain picture developed with the involvement of the person’s family is an effective pain assessment tool. This article comes with ...

While nursing home residents suffer from pain, anxiety and other distressing symptoms, they are unable to communicate their discomfort due to cognitive impairments. With electronic health records ...

Advanced Osteosarcoma, Pain Management, Comfort Care, Influencing Factors, Multimodal Analgesia Share and Cite: Gu, Y. and ...

Background Upper and lower limb (peripheral) pain is prevalent in athletes. Contemporary research prioritises multidimensional pain assessment and classification. This study aims to review ...

This study presents a case report on pain management and comfort care practices for a 52-year-old male patient with advanced osteosarcoma recurrence and systemic metastasis. The patient presented with ...