Health Care Professionals’ Pain Narratives in Hospitalized Children’s Medical Records. Part 1: Pain Descriptors

BACKGROUND: Although documentation of children’s pain by health care professionals is frequently undertaken, few studies have explored the nature of the language used to describe pain in the medical records of hospitalized children.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Judy Rashotte, Geraldine Coburn, Denise Harrison, Bonnie J Stevens, Janet Yamada, Laura K Abbott, the CIHR Team in Children’s Pain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Pain Research and Management
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/131307