Tuesday 26 January 2016

Tools to assess pain or lack of comfort in dementia: a content analysis


Journal of pain and symptom management, Nov 2015, vol. 50, no. 5, p. 659-675
van der Steen, Jenny T, Sampson, Elizabeth L, Van den Block, Lieve, Lord, Kathryn, Vankova, Hana, Pautex, Sophie, Vandervoort, An, Radbruch, Lukas, Shvartzman, Pesach, Sacchi, Valentina, de Vet, Henrica C W, Van Den Noortgate, Nele J A.

The authors aim was to map and compare items in tools that assess pain and the broader notion of discomfort or comfort in people with severe dementia or at the end of life.

Fulltext available from Elsevier in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Available in print in Arthur Rank House Library, Brookfields Hospital