TY - JOUR T1 - Clinically significant pain is experienced by just over a third of all hospitalised patients, affecting around a half of surgical and a quarter of medical admissions JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 121 LP - 121 DO - 10.1136/eb-2014-101937 VL - 18 IS - 4 AU - Elizabeth Manias Y1 - 2015/10/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/18/4/121.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Carr EC, Meredith P, Chumbley G, et al. Pain: a quality of care issue during patients’ admission to hospital. J Adv Nurs 2013;70:1391–404.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedGreater attention should be placed on assessing pain independently of vital signs, when there is evidence of pain that needs to be relieved.Future research needs to examine the development and implementation of minimum standards for clinicians assessing and responding to pain in hospitalised patients.Despite advancements in pain control, patients’ experience of pain continues to be a major problem. There have been no hospitalwide studies conducted on pain levels of whole populations of patients admitted to different clinical settings and monitored across time. This study involved examining patients’ intensity of pain at different times during their inpatient stay. The authors explored clinically significant pain (CSP), which they defined as patients' pain scores that were in … ER -