Pain Assessment in Older Adults After Traumatic Injury

Natasha Gonzalez; Hope Schwartz; Rebecca Menza; Amy M Shui; Robert Mackersie; Tasce Bongiovanni

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2024.3368

Pain Assessment in Older Adults After Traumatic Injury

JAMA Surg. 2024 Nov 6. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.3368. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Natasha Gonzalez¹, Hope Schwartz¹, Rebecca Menza², Amy M Shui³, Robert Mackersie⁴, Tasce Bongiovanni⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco.
² Institute for Health & Aging, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, San Francisco, California.

PMID: 39504010
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2024.3368

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study analyzes how pain assessment frequency and pain score magnitude and variability differ by age among trauma patients admitted in hospitals.