Preliminary clinical testing to inform development of the Critical Care Pain Observation Tool for Families (CPOT-Fam)

The Future Is Bright: Highlighting Trainee Contributions to the Canadian Journal of Pain

“…The challenge of assessing pain in patients unable to communicate motivated Shahid and colleagues to conduct a preliminary clinical testing of the Critical Care Pain Observation Tool for family caregiver use (CPOT-Fam). 13 Caregivers described the experience of using the CPOT-Fam as helpful and straightforward while also providing feedback for revisions to the tool. The refined version of the CPOT-Fam is now ready for clinical testing in terms of feasibility and acceptability and is a promising tool for clinicians and families of patients in the intensive care unit.…”