Pain Management in the Culture of Critical Care

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Clinical practice guidelines : directions for a new program

1990 • 1,386 citations

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The cortical representation of pain

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Chronic Pain-Associated Depression: Antecedent or Consequence of Chronic Pain? A Review

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Quality Improvement Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Pain and Cancer Pain

1995 • 784 citations

Perceptions by Family Members of the Dying Experience of Older and Seriously Ill Patients

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Opinion leaders vs audit and feedback to implement practice guidelines. Delivery after previous cesarean section

1991 • 583 citations

What Is Wrong With End‐of‐Life Care? Opinions of Bereaved Family Members

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Opinion Leaders vs Audit and Feedback to Implement Practice Guidelines

1991 • 443 citations

Self efficacy as a mediator of the relationship between pain intensity, disability and depression in chronic pain patients

1999 • 437 citations

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1999 • 412 citations

Pain and satisfaction with pain control in seriously ill hospitalized adults

1996 • 351 citations

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1999 • 333 citations

Anesthesia with Abdominal Surgery Leads to Intense REM Sleep during the First Post-operative Week

1990 • 319 citations

Psychosocial Factors in Pain: Critical Perspectives

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Stressors in ICU: perception of the patient, relatives and health care team

1999 • 286 citations

Pain experiences of intensive care unit patients.

1990 • 284 citations

The use of therapeutic massage as a nursing intervention to modify anxiety and the perception of cancer pain

1993 • 267 citations

Withdrawing Intensive Life-Sustaining Treatment — Recommendations for Compassionate Clinical Management

1997 • 264 citations

Adverse Environmental Conditions in the Respiratory and Medical ICU Settings

1994 • 254 citations

Dimensions of the impact of cancer pain in a four country sample: new information from multidimensional scaling

1996 • 250 citations

Effects of relaxation and music therapy on patients in a coronary care unit with presumptive acute myocardial infarction.

1989 • 239 citations

Identification and Modification of Environmental Noise in an ICU Setting

1998 • 236 citations

An exploratory study of patients' perceptions, memories and experiences of an intensive care unit

1999 • 234 citations

Environmental Noise as a Cause of Sleep Disruption in an Intermediate Respiratory Care Unit

1996 • 231 citations

The association between chronic widespread pain and mental disorder: A population-based study

2000 • 229 citations

Suffering and its Relationship to Pain

1993 • 223 citations

Relation between Symptoms of Depression and Health Status Outcomes in Acutely Ill Hospitalized Older Persons

1997 • 222 citations

Patients' experiences of being in an intensive care unit: a select literature review

2000 • 216 citations

The Effect of Ethnicity on Physician Estimates of Pain Severity in Patients with Isolated Extremity Trauma

1994 • 203 citations

Late postoperative nocturnal episodic hypoxaemia and associated sleep pattern

1994 • 191 citations

Pain and depression in acute traumatic spinal cord injury: Origins of chronic problematic pain?

1996 • 191 citations

Linking Concepts of Enduring, Uncertainty, Suffering, and Hope

1999 • 186 citations

Cultural variations in response to painful stimuli.

1990 • 184 citations

Randomized Trial of Postoperative Patient-Controlled Analgesia vs Intramuscular Narcotics in Frail Elderly Men

1990 • 180 citations

The effect of therapeutic touch on pain and anxiety in burn patients

1998 • 174 citations

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1994 • 165 citations

Differences in patientsʼ and family caregiversʼ perceptions of the pain experience influence patient and caregiver outcomes

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2000 • 156 citations

Psychophysiology of Pain

1970 • 152 citations

To understand and alleviate suffering in a caring culture

1993 • 149 citations

Results of a collaborative quality improvement program on outcomes and costs in a tertiary critical care unit

1999 • 140 citations

Effects of relaxing music on state anxiety in myocardial infarction patients

1990 • 137 citations

EVALUATION OF PAIN IN THE CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT

1999 • 129 citations

Therapeutic touch as energy exchange

1984 • 127 citations

The Effects of Music Interventions on Postoperative Pain and Sleep in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Patients

1996 • 125 citations

Sleep in hospitals at night: are patients’ needs being met?

1995 • 124 citations

Pain assessment and management in critically ill postoperative and trauma patients: a multisite study

1999 • 123 citations

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Demonstration Project: profile of excellence in critical care nursing.

1989 • 123 citations

Burn Injuries Benefit from Massage Therapy

1998 • 122 citations

Pain as a metaphor for illness. Part II: Family caregivers' management of pain.

1991 • 120 citations

A description of night sleep patterns in the critical care unit.

1988 • 119 citations

Intensive care nurses' experiences with end-of-life care

2000 • 119 citations

EXAMINING PAIN in Aggressive Cognitively Impaired Older Adults

1998 • 118 citations

Barriers to evidence-based practice

1998 • 117 citations

The effects of ocean sounds on sleep after coronary artery bypass graft surgery

1992 • 114 citations

Sleep in Acute Care Settings: An Integrative Review

2000 • 111 citations

Doctors' Decisions and the Cost of Medical Care: The Reasons for Doctors' Practice Patterns and Ways to Change Them

1986 • 111 citations

Feedback Reduces Test Use in a Health Maintenance Organization

1986 • 106 citations

Depression, disease severity, and sickle cell disease.

1999 • 104 citations

Critical care unit noise and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

1993 • 103 citations

The euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide debate: issues for nursing.

1992 • 98 citations

Factors associated with acute and chronic pain following traumatic spinal cord injuries

1997 • 96 citations

Organizational stress in the hospital: development of a model for diagnosis and prediction.

1985 • 94 citations

Quality of life outcomes after intensive care

1997 • 94 citations

The relationship and influence of anxiety on postoperative pain in the coronary artery bypass graft patient

1998 • 92 citations

The Use of Music During the Immediate Postoperative Recovery Period

1997 • 91 citations

The role of emotion in pain.

1999 • 90 citations

Preoperative Rehearsal of Active Coping Imagery Influences Subjective and Hormonal Responses to Abdominal Surgery

1995 • 90 citations

Patients' night-time pain, analgesic provision and sleep after surgery

1992 • 89 citations

Length of Stay in the Intensive Care Unit

1990 • 89 citations

The Psychology of Men and Women Recovering From Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

1999 • 87 citations

Pilot study: validating staff nurses' observations of sleep and wake states among critically ill patients, using polysomnography

1993 • 85 citations

Measurement of nocturnal sleep patterns in trauma patients.

1989 • 85 citations

Cognitive factors and the experience of pain and suffering in older persons

2000 • 84 citations

Analgesic administration, pain intensity, and patient satisfaction in cardiac surgical patients

1995 • 82 citations

Effects of personal control over hospital noise on sleep

1992 • 81 citations

Emotional responses of family members during a critical care hospitalization

1994 • 81 citations

Classification of nursing diagnoses : proceedings of the seventh conference

1987 • 77 citations

Pain, anxiety and powerlessness

1991 • 76 citations

The limits of suffering: Critical care nurses' views of hospital care at the end of life

1997 • 75 citations

The need to know: experiences of critically ill patients

2000 • 71 citations

Behavioral Responses of Family Members during Critical Illness

1993 • 71 citations

The Relationship and Influence of Anxiety on Postoperative Pain in the Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patient

1998 • 71 citations

Early psychological reactions to life-threatening injuries

2000 • 71 citations

The use of relaxation for the promotion of comfort and pain relief in persons with advanced cancer

1994 • 70 citations

Guided Imagery Interventions for Symptom Management

1999 • 69 citations

The relationship of nausea and dyspnea to pain in seriously ill patients

1997 • 68 citations

Mexican–American cultural meanings, expressions, self‐care and dependent‐care actions associated with experiences of pain

1995 • 65 citations

Assessment of long-term psychological well-being following intensive care

1998 • 63 citations

Anxiety and Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit

1994 • 62 citations

Preference for information and involvement, information seeking and emotional responses of women undergoing colposcopy

1990 • 61 citations

Stressors perceived by cardiac surgical patients in the intensive care unit

1995 • 61 citations

Development of discharge information for recovery after coronary artery bypass surgery

1994 • 60 citations

Patient-controlled analgesia versus intermittent analgesia dosing.

1988 • 57 citations

Identification of stressors related to patients' psychologic responses to the surgical intensive care unit.

1987 • 57 citations

Changing Acute Pain Management to Improve Patient Outcomes

1999 • 56 citations

Relaxation technique and postoperative pain in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

1990 • 54 citations

The neurochemistry of anxiety: An update

1990 • 54 citations

Relationships among sleep dimensions and factors that impair sleep after cardiac surgery

1996 • 53 citations

An exploratory study of pain, coping,and depressed mood following burn injury

1997 • 52 citations

Ethnicity in the reported pain, emotional distress and requests of medical outpatients

1984 • 48 citations

Effect of Relaxation with Guided Imagery on Anxiety, Depression, and Self-Esteem in Primiparas

1995 • 48 citations

Effect of imagery on children's pain and anxiety during cardiac catheterization

1995 • 48 citations

The Needs of the Family of Critically III Neurosurgical Patients: A Comparison of Nursesʼ and Family Membersʼ Perceptions

1999 • 47 citations

Chronic Pain in the Elderly: Occupational Adaptation as a Means of Coping with Osteoarthritis of the Hip and/or Knee

1999 • 47 citations

Strategies for Reducing Medical Costs by Changing Physicians' Behavior: Efficacy and Impact on Quality of Care

1987 • 45 citations

Sleep patterns and stress in patients having coronary bypass.

1992 • 44 citations

Assessment of sleep in hospital patients: a review of methods

1988 • 42 citations

Depressed Mood and Survival in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults

1998 • 42 citations

Smoking Cessation: Information for Specialists

1996 • 38 citations

Effects of a 1-minute back rub on mixed venous oxygen saturation and heart rate in critically ill patients.

1990 • 38 citations

Patients' perceptions of the pre‐operative information they need about events they may experience in the intensive care unit

1997 • 37 citations

Promoting Health by Promoting Comfort

1992 • 37 citations

The cardiac surgical patient's expectations and experiences of nursing care in the intensive care unit

1999 • 35 citations

A randomised controlled trial of feedback to general practitioners of their prophylactic aspirin prescribing

1997 • 35 citations

Causes of ICU psychosis: the environmental factors.

1999 • 33 citations

Do pain and disability differ in depressed cancer patients?

2000 • 33 citations

No difference exists in the alteration of circadian rhythm between patients with and without intensive care unit psychosis

1998 • 32 citations

Influence of Professional vs. Personal Role on Pain Assessment and Use of Opioids

1997 • 32 citations

Changing hospital work environments: An example of a burn unit

1983 • 31 citations

Relaxation Techniques for Pain Relief After Open Heart Surgery

1984 • 30 citations

Parental Stress as a Cause and Effect of Pediatric Burn Injury

1993 • 29 citations

The unconscious experience

1995 • 29 citations

Therapeutic considerations in the management of agitated or delirious critically ill patients.

1998 • 29 citations

A survey of pediatric critical care nurses' knowledge of pain management

1997 • 29 citations

Opioid Requirements and Responses in Asians

1997 • 29 citations

PAIN

1999 • 28 citations

Making changes to improve the intensive care unit experience for patients and their families.

1998 • 28 citations

Influence of Sex on Pain Assessment and Management☆☆☆★

1996 • 27 citations

Pain management strategies and team approach

1999 • 27 citations

Nursing Research on Patient Falls in Health Care Institutions

1993 • 27 citations

The support study

1990 • 26 citations

Dialogue to Action: Lessons Learned from Some Family Members of Deceased Patients at an Interactive Program in Seven Utah Hospitals

1997 • 25 citations

Coronary Artery Bypass Patients' Perceptions of Acute Postoperative Pain

1997 • 25 citations

Nursing research on patient falls in health care institutions.

1993 • 24 citations

Developing Family-Focused Care

1995 • 24 citations

Why is the pain relief of dying patients often unsuccessful? The relatives' perspectives

1998 • 24 citations

Nurses' Interpretation of the Suffering of Their Patients

1990 • 24 citations

PSYCHIATRIC DISTURBANCE AND ACUTE STRESS RESPONSES IN SURGICAL PATIENTS

1997 • 23 citations

An Invisible History of Pain: Early 19th-Century Britain and America

1998 • 23 citations

Pain and Psychological distress in patients undergoing autologous bone marrow transplantation

1992 • 23 citations

Pain management in the critically ill

1998 • 23 citations

Effects of patient-controlled analgesia on postoperative anxiety in elderly men

1993 • 23 citations

Arab-Americans' perceptions of and responses to pain

1986 • 21 citations

A systematic comparison of feedback and staff discussion in changing the ward atmosphere

1990 • 20 citations

Therapeutic Considerations in the Management of Agitated or Delirious Critically 111 Patients

1998 • 20 citations

Critical Care Family Needs Inventory: a cognitive research utilization approach.

1995 • 18 citations

The Pocket Guide to Cultural Assessment

1994 • 18 citations

The Effects of Progressive Muscular Relaxation on Subjectively Reported Disturbance Due to Hospital Noise

1988 • 17 citations

Implementation of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Pain Guidelines

1996 • 17 citations

Children visiting in the adult ICU: a facilitated approach

1998 • 17 citations

Breathing Management: A Simple Stress and Pain Reduction Strategy for Use on A Pediatric Service

1989 • 17 citations

Development and Implementation of a Pain Management Program

1996 • 17 citations

Pocket Guide to Cultural Assessment

1994 • 16 citations

The relationship among organizational climate variables and nurse stability in critical care units

1989 • 15 citations

Critical Care Family Needs Inventory: a cognitive research utilization approach

1995 • 15 citations

Pain patient profile: A scale to measure psychological distress

1999 • 15 citations

Enhancing management of cancer pain: Contribution of the internal working model

1998 • 15 citations

PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY

1990 • 13 citations

Anxiety, Pain, and Coping

1985 • 13 citations

Ethnic Pain Styles in Acute Myocardial Infarctionl

1993 • 13 citations

A case of Capgras delusion following critical illness

1999 • 10 citations

Pain Management in the Critically Ill: What Do We Know and How Can We Improve?

1994 • 10 citations

Is it worth it? Balancing the benefit of extended life with the cost of suffering during critical illness

1998 • 9 citations

Pain intensity in nondiabetic patients with myocardial infarction or unstable angina

1998 • 9 citations

Beyond the Stages of Sleep: An Emerging Nursing Model of Sleep Phases

1996 • 7 citations

Effects of therapeutic massage on pre‐operative anxiety in a rural hospital: part 1

1993 • 7 citations

Pain Management

1990 • 5 citations

Effects of therapeutic massage on pre‐operative anxiety in a rural hospital: part 2

1993 • 5 citations

Changing visiting practices in critical care units.

1995 • 4 citations

An innovative approach to pain management in critical care: therapeutic touch.

1997 • 4 citations

Promoting sleep for the patient with a myocardial infarction

1989 • 4 citations

Effect of nitropaste administration times on sleep and nocturnal angina

1992 • 3 citations

The Relationship of Stress Management Training to the Experience of Pain in Clients with Intractable Angina

1987 • 2 citations

Suffering. Nurses heeding the call.

2000 • 1 citations