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D S Mills

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PubMed1991

Systematic pain records and their impact on pain control. A pilot study.

This study examined the impact of a systematic nursing pain assessment tool (PAT) and pain flow sheet (PFS) on pain management. A control group (N = 23) was compared with a treatment group (N = 20) of hospitalized patients on a medical oncology unit. In the control group, "routine" charting of pain was done in the nurses' narrative notes. Patients in the treatment group underwent standardized pain assessment and documentation using a PAT and PFS. The treatment group reported significantly lower average pain intensity ratings (chi 2 = 5.019, p = 0.02) on day three of follow-up. In addition, a greater number of patients in the treatment group (85%) reported decreased pain intensity from day one to day three as compared with the control group (57%). This study supports other research and recommendations in the literature that use of systematic pain records can improve pain management.

Analgesia↗
PubMed1990

Tonic immobility in spent hens after catching and transport.

Tonic immobility tests were used to obtain information about the levels of fear in end-of-lay hens after they had been transported to four commercial processing plants. They stayed in a condition of tonic immobility longer than hens which had only been caught and removed from cages. There was no evidence that they became habituated to transport during journeys of up to five hours, but there were significant differences between the levels of fear expressed by birds transported by the different processors.

Animal Husbandry↗