Reframing Hospital Pain Assessment for Older Adults

This Viewpoint discusses how adding structured functional assessment to numeric intensity scores could improve pain evaluation for older adults, making pain assessments more actionable and patient centered.

Corresponding Author: Aksharananda Rambachan, MD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143 (aksharananda.rambachan@ucsf.edu).

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