Churchill's Pocketbook Of Major Trauma

The book focuses on the problem of measuring pain: what ccould and should be measured, why and how to do it. A group of chapters look at Patient self-report measures. Another group covers clinician Derived measures. A final group look at how to assess the clinician and how the practitioner may affect the perception of pain by the patient. In each case the author will: 1) define and discuss the key construct (include physiological, physical psychological , 2) describe the tools in common clinical use that purport to measure the construct, 3) critique the measures in terms of the influence of confounding factors, 4) discuss what the measures reveal and what they don't, 5) using data, discuss the application and use of measures in specific patient populations. The last section of the book looks at the assessment and measurement of pain in specific patient populations. The book may be used as a reference text, as a handbook for clinicians, and as a source book for those interested in undertaking futher research in the field.