A new standardized tool for the assessment of chronic pain can differentiate between pain subtypes and may help tailor treatment. The new tool is published in this week's open-access journal PLoS ...

A pain-assessment tool with built-in treatment guidance reduced cancer-related pain outcomes, according to study data. The test also improved prescribing practices but did not influence opioid-related ...

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. April 28, 2009 — A new pain assessment tool helps separate radicular from axial low back pain (LBP), according to the results of a study reported ...

Pain assessment and management in critical care is a multifaceted challenge that encompasses both the sensory and emotional dimensions of pain. In intensive care settings, patients frequently face ...

April 3, 2017 - A new Behavior Pain Assessment Tool (BPAT) provides a simple way to evaluate pain in critically ill patients--including those who aren't able to communicate their pain verbally, ...

This article describes the research strategy for the development of a computerized assessment tool as part of a European Union (EU)–funded project, the European Palliative Care Research Collaborative ...

Japanese pharmaceutical giant Chugai and Boston-based digital therapeutics company Biofourmis announced that they have partnered to develop a digital solution for the objective assessment of pain ...

Pain assessment in medicine often relies on imprecise visual rating scales featuring smiling or crying faces, frustrating patients and physicians alike. Children's National Hospital researchers aim to ...

A new tool to assess acute pain in non-communicative patients has been developed by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. The tool is the product of four small-scale research ...

Currently used pain assessment tools may be underestimating the pain response in infants according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine this week. Dr. Slater and colleagues ...

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 ...