Assessment of Acute Pain Using Physiologic Variables in Non-communicative Patients: Nurses' Perspectives (S748)

Abstract

burdensome transitions (hospice discharge followed by hospital admission, then hospice readmission). A mixed-effect multivariate logistic model was used to predict the rate of each outcome (live discharge and burdensome transition) with interaction terms for year and tax status after adjusting for patient age, gender, race, and hospice principal diagnosis.

Pain Assessment in Noncommunicative Adult Palliative Care Patients

“…The diaphoresis item has been dropped from the hospice version and is no longer scored in the acute care setting (personal communication, McGuire, 4/28/16). Further exploratory work on this dimension in the acute care setting is underway 61 . The MOPAT has been incorporated into several electronic health record systems and is currently used as the standard of care pain assessment tool for non-communicative palliative care patients in a hospice and an acute care hospital 57,60,62 .…”