Digital Pain Drawings Can Improve Doctors' Understanding of Acute Pain Patients: Survey and Pain Drawing Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain drawings (PDs) are an important tool to evaluate, communicate, and objectify pain. In the past few years, there has been a shift toward tablet-based acquisition of PDs, and several studies have been conducted to test the usefulness, reliability, and repeatability of electronic PDs. However, to our knowledge, no study has investigated the potential role of electronic PDs in the clinical assessment and treatment of inpatients in acute pain situations.

Objective

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether knowledge of the patients' electronic PD has the potential to improve the doctors' understanding of their patients and to influence their clinical decision making. Furthermore, we sought to identify differences between electronic PDs of patients and their tre

SUBMITTER: Shaballout N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6329897 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature