Assessment of patient pain at colonoscopy: are nurses better than endoscopists?

AUTOR(ES)

Ramakrishnan, S

FONTE

The Royal Society of Medicine

RESUMO

The pain that patients recollect having experienced at colonoscopy is likely to influence uptake of the procedure. We used visual analogue scales to assess recollected pain shortly before discharge, and compared these scores with assessments by the endoscopist and the attending nurse.

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