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Measuring Pain Intensity in Nursing Home Residents
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assessing pain intensity nursing home residents remains challenge part multifaceted intervention study improve pain practices nursing homes quarterly pain assessments conducted 12 colorado nursing homes residents reported pain discomfort kind past 24 hours asked choose one three pain intensity scales quantify current highest level pain intensity also observed pain behaviors using feldts checklist nonverbal pain indicators residents preferred verbal descriptor scale almost 21 11point verbal numeric rating scale faces pain scale sex ethnicity associated differences scale preference onehalf residents reporting pain observable pain indicator monotonic relationship reported pain intensity number observed pain indicators improve pain assessment management nursing homes residents given choice pain intensity scales observed possible pain behaviors