Interventions related to pain.
A two-round Delphi survey was completed by pain experts to achieve consensus on 10 selected pain interventions and associated activities characteristic of each intervention. Consistently high scores were obtained by the raters for each intervention and activity, with most activities perceived as critical to the intervention. Interventions with more specific activities were rated highest by the expert judges. Expert feedback indicates the complexity of establishing a list of activities for selected interventions when dealing with pain of various types, with different causes and for different patient populations. The expert raters clearly see assessment and evaluation activities as part of the intervention strategies for each intervention. Further research is needed to validate the interventions and activities with nurse experts from varying clinical specialty areas in the practice setting.
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College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
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D003697:Delphi Technique; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000145:classification*; D015399:Nursing Research; D010146:Pain / Q000451:nursing*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States