Experts call for greater pain assessment in hospitals as 65 percent of patients report problems
Monday, February 28, 2011 - 11:32
in Health & Medicine
Nearly two-thirds of the hospital in-patients who took part in a survey had experienced pain in the last 24 hours and 42% of those rated their pain as more than seven out of ten, where ten was the worst pain imaginable, according to the March issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing.