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This article was originally published as: Improving pain management through addition of the functional activity score<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/h2>\n

Objective: This study investigated the benefits of adding a new measurement tool, the Functional Activity Score to a validated measurement tool, the Numeric Rating Scale.
\nDesign: Prospective cohort comparing cases (with intervention) to controls (usual care).
\nSetting: Inpatients from a Chinese Mainland teaching hospital.
\nSubjects: Eighty three postoperative patients of mixed gender and Chinese ethnicity.
\nInterventions: Adding Functional Activity score, a subjective observer assessed pain measurement tool, to usual postoperative pain intensity assessment.
\nMain outcome measures: Median 24 hour dynamic pain rating intensity. Episodes of moderate to severe pain.
\nResults: Median 24 hour dynamic numeric rating pain postoperative pain intensity rating with cough 3 [2.25, 3.75] versus 6 [5, 7] (p< 0.001), and at rest 0 [0,0] versus 2 [0,3] (p < 0.001) were both significantly lower in the intervention group versus the control group. The intervention group also experienced significantly less episodes of moderate to severe pain (p=0.02) and reported significantly less cough related interference with pain (p=0.003).
\nConclusion: Functional activity score is easy to teach and apply, complements existing objective pain assessment after surgery and is beneficial for patient care.<\/p>\n

Authors<\/h2>\n
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  • Ying Ge Tong<\/li>\n
  • Alex Konstantatos<\/li>\n
  • Yan Cheng<\/li>\n
  • Ling Chai<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Keywords<\/h2>\n

    pain measurement, nursing assesment, pain management, pain, postoperative, Mainland China<\/p>\n

    References<\/h2>\n

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