Nurses' assessment of postoperative patients' pain

MEASUREMENT OF PAIN

1974 • 4,075 citations

The reliability of a linear analogue for evaluating pain

1976 • 1,261 citations

Undertreatment of Medical Inpatients with Narcotic Analgesics

1973 • 1,096 citations

Postsurgical pain relief: Patientsʼ status and nursesʼ medication choices

1980 • 509 citations

Sensitivity and accuracy of the visual analogue scale: a psycho‐ physical classroom experiment.

1978 • 468 citations

Incidence and characteristics of pain in a sample of medical-surgical inpatients

1987 • 435 citations

Comparisons between patients' and nurses' assessment of pain and medication efficacy in severe burn injuries

1990 • 311 citations

Relationships between nurses' observations and patients' self-reports of pain

1983 • 271 citations

Attitudes of Patients, Housestaff, and Nurses Toward Postoperative Analgesic Care

1983 • 204 citations

Postoperative pain therapy: a survey of patients' expectations and their experiences

1990 • 202 citations

Perceptions of pain relief after surgery.

1990 • 192 citations

Key Aspects of Comfort: Management of Pain, Fatigue, and Nausea

1989 • 174 citations

Nurses?? knowledge of opioid analgesic drugs and psychological dependence

1990 • 137 citations

Clinical decision making and pain

1991 • 131 citations

Nurses' knowledge of pain issues: A survey

1987 • 127 citations

The knowledge, attitudes, and experience of medical personnel treating pain in the terminally ill.

1978 • 104 citations

Identification of patient, medical and nursing staff attitudes to postoperative opioid analgesia: stage 1 of a longitudinal study of postoperative analgesia

1992 • 98 citations

Duration of Pain Condition and Physical Pathology as Determinants of Nurses?? Assessments of Patients in Pain

1984 • 98 citations

Pain on the Burn Unit

1986 • 89 citations

Comparison of medical, surgical and oncology patients' descriptions of pain and nurses' documentation of pain assessments

1987 • 87 citations

A comparison of nurses?? recorded assessments of pain with perceptions of pain as described by cancer patients

1988 • 83 citations

Analgesic Medication for Elderly People Post-Surgery

1984 • 77 citations

Acute Postoperative Pain: Incidence, Severity, and the Etiology of Inadequate Treatment

1989 • 77 citations

Factors associated with adequate pain control in hospitalized postsurgical patients diagnosed with cancer

1991 • 72 citations

Pain assessment by patients and nurses in the early phase of acute myocardial infarction

1987 • 70 citations

II. IN RELATION TO THE STAGE OF THE PATIENTʼS ILLNESS AND OCCUPATION OF THE PERCEIVER

1970 • 62 citations

Perceptions of pain.

1987 • 60 citations

NURSES' INFERENCES OF SUFFERING

1969 • 58 citations

An investigation of the influences of selected factors on nurses' inferences of patient suffering

1981 • 48 citations

Pain management in the terminally ill cancer patient: an investigation of nurses' attitudes, knowledge, and clinical practice.

1982 • 48 citations

Nurses' perceptions of cancer patients' pain.

1984 • 46 citations

Pain Management in the Terminally III Cancer Patient: An Investigation of Nurses' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Clinical Practice

1982 • 45 citations

Patterns of Analgesic Prescription and Consumption in a University-Affiliated Community Hospital

1985 • 37 citations

Comparison of Burned Patientsʼ Perception of Pain with Nursesʼ Perception of Patientsʼ Pain

1982 • 37 citations

ATTITUDES AND KNOWLEDGE OF NURSING STAFF IN RELATION TO MANAGEMENT OF POSTOPERATIVE PAIN

1987 • 35 citations

Nurse$sA perceptions of cancer patient$sA pain

1984 • 34 citations

Medicating the Postoperative Elderly: How Do Nurses Make Their Decisions?

1990 • 31 citations

Attitudes of patients, housestaff, and nurses toward postoperative analgesic care

1983 • 26 citations

Congruence of nurse-patient expectations regarding nursing intervention in pain.

1981 • 23 citations

Assessing Pain

1979 • 22 citations

The Accuracy of Nurses’ and Doctors’ Perceptions of Patient Pain

1989 • 8 citations

Critical Care Supplement: How Painful Are Postop Incisions?

1986 • 7 citations

Pain Management across Age Groups

1989 • 7 citations

Evaluation of acute pain: a comparison of patient and nurse perspectives.

1988 • 5 citations

Patterns of analgesic prescription and consumption in a university-affiliated community hospital

1985 • 2 citations