2018-12-16
Validation of the Rotterdam Elderly Pain Observation Scale in the Hospital Setting
Publication
Publication
Pain Practice , Volume 19 - Issue 4 p. 407- 417
Background: The Rotterdam Elderly Pain Observation Scale
(REPOS) has been proven useful to assess pain in noncommunicative and cognitively impaired nursing home residents.
We evaluated whether the REPOS is also reliable and valid for
pain assessment in the hospital setting.
Methods: In this prospective multicenter observational
study, surgical patients were observed perioperatively at
bedside and internal medicine patients were filmed during a
possible painful moment and at rest. Pain behavior was
assessed from the video recordings with the REPOS and the
Pain Assessment Checklist for seniors with Severe Dementia—
Dutch language (PACSLAC-D). Longitudinal associations
between REPOS score and numeric rating scale pain ratings
from observers and nurses (NRSobs and NRSproxy) corrected for
patients’ gender were assessed with linear mixed models.
Results: In total, 72 patients were included; 118 observations of surgical and 68 observations of internal medicine
patients were analyzed. Interobserver reliability between the
researcher and 2 other observers was good, with Cohen’s
kappa values of 0.71 (confidence interval [CI] 0.59 to 0.83)
and 0.84 (CI 0.74 to 0.94), respectively. The intraobserver
reliability of the principal investigator was good, with
Cohen’s kappa 0.82 (CI 0.67 to 0.91). Linear mixed modeling
revealed correlation values between the REPOS and NRSobs of
0.67 and the REPOS and NRSproxy of 0.73. Optimal sensitivity
(78%) and specificity (90%) for the detection of pain were
found with a REPOS cutoff score of ≥3, using an NRS score of
≥4 as the reference value.
Conclusions: The REPOS is reliable and valid for the assessment of postoperative and chronic pain in hospital patients
who cannot self-report pain.
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doi.org/10.1111/papr.12756, hdl.handle.net/1765/117109 | |
Pain Practice | |
Organisation | Department of Pediatrics |
Boerlage, A., van Rosmalen, J., Cheuk-Alam-Balrak, J., Goudzwaard, J., Tibboel, D., & van Dijk, M. (2018). Validation of the Rotterdam Elderly Pain Observation Scale in the Hospital Setting. Pain Practice, 19(4), 407–417. doi:10.1111/papr.12756 |