High inter-observer agreement of observer-perceived pain assessment in the emergency department
Abstract Background Triage is used to prioritize the patients in the emergency department. The majority of the triage systems include the patients’ pain score to assess their level of acuity by using a combination of patient reported pain and observer-perceived pain; the latter therefore requires a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-02-01
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Series: | BMC Emergency Medicine |
Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12873-018-0159-4 |