The flowcharts show six key discriminators (life threat, pain, haemorrhage, acuteness of onset, level of consciousness, and temperature) as well as specific discriminators relevant to the presenting problem.
· What is the effect of fear of movement on post-operative exercise adherence, physical activity, pain and disability? Figure 1 presents a flowchart of the study.
The flowchart describes the selection of the 62 (56%) patients with somatoform-functional pain and the 49 (44%) patients with somatic-nociceptive pain.
The chest pain guideline included a long version, a short version (two-page flowchart), a patient leaflet, and a flowchart for practice nursing staff.
Another reason could be that an informal rule how to treat patients with chest pain is already implemented within the practices so that the flowchart seems to have no additional benefit for the nursing staff.
Education of staff or provision of analgesic and therapy guidelines or flowcharts may be of use in speeding up the management of muscular back pain in the ED.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 Flowchart depicting received procedures and participation in preference study of women participating in randomised trial comparing pain scores.
The team was responsible for supervising cancer pain treatment as well as providing advice on comprehensive pain management for difficult cases. Figure 1 illustrates the flowchart of pain management.
A flowchart of essential high-school summer reading.
"Everyone follows a system, everything goes in a flowchart way".
