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Peripheral Blood Cells and Clinical Profiles as Biomarkers for Pain Detection in Palliative Care Patients

Biomedicines
Background/Objectives: Patients in need of specialized palliative care are clinically highly complex, with pain being the most prevalent problem. Furthermore, in these patients, a self-report for characterization of pain could be difficult to obtain ...
Hugo Ribeiro, Raquel Alves, Joana Jorge, Bárbara Oliveiros, Tânia Gaspar, Inês Rodrigues, João Rocha Neves, Joana Brandão Silva, António Pereira Neves, Ana Bela Sarmento-Ribeiro, Marília Dourado, Ana Cristina Gonçalves, José Paulo Andrade   +12 more
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Symptom Levels in Care-Seeking Bangladeshi and Nepalese Adults With Advanced Cancer [PDF]

, 2017
Purpose Three-fourths of patients with advanced cancer are reported to suffer from pain. A primary barrier to provision of adequate symptom treatment is failure to appreciate the intensity of the symptoms patients are experiencing.
Adibuzzaman, Mohammad, Ahamed, Sheikh Iqbal, Dowla, Rumana, Ferdousy, Tahmina, Love, Richard, Nahar, Shamsun, Paudel, Bishnu D., Selim, Reza, Tanimul Ahsan, Golam Mushih, Uddin, Miftah   +9 more
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Regularizing Face Verification Nets For Pain Intensity Regression

, 2017
Limited labeled data are available for the research of estimating facial expression intensities. For instance, the ability to train deep networks for automated pain assessment is limited by small datasets with labels of patient-reported pain intensities.
Cheng, Jian, Hager, Gregory D., Liu, Chang, Quon, Harry, Reiter, Austin, Tran, Trac D., Wang, Feng, Xiang, Xiang, Yuille, Alan L.   +8 more
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Symptoms and functional status of patients with disseminated cancer visiting outpatient departments [PDF]

, 1998
Considerable research has focused on pain and other symptoms in terminal cancer patients referred to hospices and palliative care services. These patients differ from Dutch cancer patients in the palliative stage of their disease because the latter are ...
Meijler, W.J., Meyboom-de Jong, B., Otter, R., Schakenraad, J., Schuit, K.W., Sleijfer, D.T., van den Bergh, F.C.   +6 more
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Sensitivity and Specificity of the Comfort Scale to Assess Pain in Ventilated Critically Ill Adult Patients in Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Pain is a common phenomenon experienced by ventilated and critically ill adult patients. It is urgent to measure the pain among these patients since they are unable to report their pain verbally.
Prasetyo, A. (Awal), Utami, R. S. (Reni), Wahyuningsih, I. S. (Indah)   +2 more
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Assessment of the reliability and validity of visual analog scale for abdominal pain among selected school students from selected schools at Kanyakumari district

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Introduction: School students often carry heavy school bags, which can contribute to various health issues, including abdominal pain. The relationship between heavy school bags and abdominal pain is an emerging concern among educators, healthcare ...
M. S. Praythiesh Bruce, A. Surekha, R. Karnaboopathy, K. U. Suresh Balan, Vijay K. Chavada, Vedapriya, Abhijit V. Boratne, Prateek Bobhate, T. K. Raja   +8 more
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Validità e affidabilità delle scale non verbali per l’accertamento del dolore nei pazienti incapaci a fornire autovalutazione - Non-verbal scales validity and reliability for assessment pain in patients unable to self-report

Pathos, 2016
The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as an “unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".
Vincenzo Damico
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Management of paediatric procedure-related cancer pain

, 1999
Paediatric malignancy is not always painful in its own right; however, young patients with cancer undergo numerous painful procedures for diagnosis, therapy and supportive care, including lumbar puncture, bone marrow aspiration and biopsy.
Liossi, C.
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Pain in Hospital: A Real‐Word Data Analysis

Nursing Open
Aim The study aim was to describe the prevalence of pain, its assessment, and its associated characteristics in a university hospital in the French‐speaking part of Switzerland.
Virginie Claivaz, Malik Benmachiche, Zeina Santoro, Fabienne Hadorn, Cédric Mabire   +4 more
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Is pain during pediatric dental sedation associated with children’s pre-operative characteristics? An exploratory study

Revista de Odontologia da UNESP
Introduction Little is known about the factors associated with the pain of children in dental treatment under conscious sedation. Objective To investigate the association between preoperative characteristics and pain during pediatric dental treatment ...
Jordanna Guedes Amorim MENDONÇA, Anelise DAHER, Patrícia CORRÊA-FARIA, Luciane Rezende COSTA   +3 more
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