The Joint Commission, accreditor for thousands of U.S healthcare facilities, is revising pain “assessment and management standards” for behavioral health care, home care and nursing care center ...

A newly-published Cochrane review reveals significant gaps in the clinical rating scales used to assess pain in newborn babies, highlighting the urgent need for improved tools and global collaboration ...

Pain assessment and management in critical care is a multifaceted challenge that encompasses both the sensory and emotional dimensions of pain. In intensive care settings, patients frequently face ...

A verbal pain measure was recently introduced that is accurate in differentiating patients with low back pain from persons who simulate pain. It consists of 103 pain words. Forty-five of these pain ...

A study led by Adam Rodman, title at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), reveals that, rather than helping to reduce racial and ethnic biases, AI-driven chatbots may instead perpetuate and ...