title: Evaluation of pain and accuracy diagnostic in hospitalized children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Acute pain occurs in over 50% of hospitalized children. The accuracy of this diagnosis has been underexplored in the literature, as has the role of training to implement pain assessment. This study analyzed the accuracy of acute pain diagnoses after the implementation of a systematic evaluation of pain (study intervention).
  
  
  METHODS
  The sample was divided into: pre- and postintervention. The Nursing Diagnosis Accuracy Scale, which scores accuracy as null, low, moderate, or high, was used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the postimplementation, acute pain was diagnosed more often. However, accuracy only improved in the moderate category.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Diagnosis of acute pain increased in the postimplementation period, but accuracy did not.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The development of strategies for improvement of diagnostic accuracy is warranted.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Unit at Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Caroline Maier
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Predebon
authors.forename: Diná
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: de Almeida Lopes Monteiro da Cruz
authors.forename: Fabiana Gonçalves
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: de Oliveira Azevedo Matos
authors.forename: Anali Martegani
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pasin
authors.forename: Eneida Rejane
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Rabelo
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis; D010147:Pain Measurement