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The subjective perceptions of communicative patients were recorded on each physical therapy session (Table 3).
Pain was assessed in communicative patients on a score of 0 (no pain) to 10 (maximum pain).
Patients and methods: Ancillary analysis of data prospectively collected from 220 ICU communicative patients enrolled for the validation of the IC-RDOS.
Behavioral pain tools should not be used in communicative patients, because correlation coefficients between BPS and self-reported pain scales are low [24].
For communicative patients, the nurse asked the patient if he/she felt depressed.
For communicative patients, the patient was asked if he/she felt depressed: 'Do you feel down?'.
However, in nonintubated verbally communicative patients, the original CAM may be superior in detecting subtle cases of delirium [ 18].
Chanques and coworkers [ 31] evaluated pain in 230 ICU patients using the combination of BPS (for noncommunicative patients) and NPS (for communicative patients).
Pain assessment tools include self-report (often using a numeric pain scale) for communicative patients and pain scales that incorporate observed behaviors and physiologic measures for noncommunicative patients.
Chanques and coworkers [ 15] used a pre-postintervention design and implemented use of BPS (for noncommunicative patients) in combination with NRS (for communicative patients) to evaluate pain.
For awake and communicative patients, pain level on the 11-point numeric rating scale (NRS 0 to 10) [ 12] was asked for and noted during procedures.
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