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  2. Pain scale - Wikipedia

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    Pain scales are a necessity to assist with better assessment of pain and patient screening. Pain measurements help determine the severity, type, and duration of the pain, and are used to make an accurate diagnosis, determine a treatment plan, and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment.

  3. Pain assessment - Wikipedia

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    The Joint Commission began setting standards for pain assessment in 2001 stating that the route of analgesic administration dictates the times for pain reassessment, as different routes require different amounts of time for the medication to have a therapeutic effect. Oral: 45–69 minutes. Intramuscular: 30 minutes.

  4. Wong–Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale - Wikipedia

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    The fourth face represents a pain score of 6, and indicates "hurts even more". The fifth face represents a pain score of 8, and indicates "hurts a whole lot"; the sixth face represents a pain score of 10, and indicates "hurts worst". [2] This pain scale was originally developed for children. However, it can be used with all patients age 3 and ...

  5. SOCRATES (pain assessment) - Wikipedia

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    SOCRATES is used to gain an insight into the patient's condition, and to allow the health care provider to develop a plan for dealing with it. [1] [2] It can be useful for differentiating between nociceptive pain and neuropathic pain. [3]

  6. McGill Pain Questionnaire - Wikipedia

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    Among the words, sections of these words signify different components of pain, namely, Sensory (sections 1-10), Affective (sections 11-15), Evaluative (section 16), and Miscellaneous (sections 17-20). [1] According to the European Medicines Agency it is the most frequently used measurement tool for multidimensional pain assessment in chronic ...

  7. OPQRST - Wikipedia

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    This may also be assessed for pain now, compared to pain at time of onset, or pain on movement. There are alternative assessment methods for pain, which can be used where a patient is unable to vocalise a score. One such method is the Wong-Baker faces pain scale. Time (history)

  8. Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia - Wikipedia

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    Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) is a pain scale developed by Victoria Warden, Ann C. Hurley, and Ladislav Volicer to provide a universal method of analysing the pain experienced by people in late stage dementia.

  9. Discrete Fourier transform - Wikipedia

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    The DFT is used in the Fourier analysis of many practical applications. [2] In digital signal processing, the function is any quantity or signal that varies over time, such as the pressure of a sound wave, a radio signal, or daily temperature readings, sampled over a finite time interval (often defined by a window function [3]).