title: Using assessment tools to help patients in pain.
abstract: Pain is a subjective experience; assessment tools allow some objective indication of the effectiveness of care. Assessment tools can be time-consuming to complete and are not a substitute for one-to-one communication and a thorough nursing assessment. Assessment tools increase the options available when pain is a serious problem.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schofield
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010147:Pain Measurement; D015203:Reproducibility of Results