THE FEASIBILITY OF PAIN ASSESSMENT IN THE PREHOSPITAL SETTING From: Prehospital Emergency Care | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright Hanley & Belfus, Inc. Apr-Jun 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Objective. To determine the feasibility of prehospital pain measurement among patients 13 years of age or older using a verbal and numeric rating scale and to assess the severity of pain in a prehospital patient population. Methods. Retrospective cross-sectional study of emergency medical services (EMS) run sheets after the adoption of a universal prehospital pain assessment protocol. Data were abstracted from a sequential (1:4) sample of run sheets from the first three months after adoption of the protocol. Verbal rating scale (VRS) and numeric rating scale (NRS) pain assessment ...