Brown Donna
Senior Nurse Acute/Chronic Pain Service Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, 2nd Floor West Wing, Royal Victoria Hospital, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BA.
Rev Pain. 2011 Sep;5(3):18-22. doi: 10.1177/204946371100500305.
Research reveals that older people continue to experience much suffering from acute and chronic pain conditions.People with cognitive impairment receive less analgesia than their cognitively intact peers.Postoperative pain assessment with older people in the acute hospital setting remains a challenge.Context and culture have a significant impact of pain assessment practices.Due to a paucity of research exploring how pain assessment and management practices with cognitively impaired older people may be realised in the acute hospital setting, there is a need for further research to be conducted.
研究表明，老年人仍然深受急慢性疼痛之苦。认知障碍患者比认知健全的同龄人获得的镇痛治疗更少。在急症医院环境中对老年人进行术后疼痛评估仍然是一项挑战。背景和文化对疼痛评估实践有重大影响。由于缺乏关于如何在急症医院环境中实现对认知障碍老年人的疼痛评估和管理实践的研究，因此需要进行进一步的研究。
