The PainChek® Pain Chart gives you a graphical representation of a Residents Pain Assessment levels over time.
This can be used to identify patterns in pain levels, compare "At Rest" and "Post Movement" Assessments, as well as identify periods where no Assessments were conducted.
1. To view the Pain Chart, select a Resident:
2. Select the Pain Chart tab:
3. Once you are in the Pain Chart tab, you will see the pain chart displayed.
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You will see a time period tabs above the graph. You can tap on them them to change the period of time to display data for (from 1 day through to 1 year).
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Immediately above the graph, you will see a description of the contents (this particular example shows PainChek assessments). A patient may be assessed using PainChek or (optionally) NRS assessments. In the case both types of assessments apply to a resident, two seprate graphs will be displayed. You may need to scroll to the bottom of the page to see the second graph.
4. There is a legend just above the chart which explains the two different colour variations. On graph represents "At Rest" assessments and the other "Post Movement" assessments.
5. If you tap on one of the data points, it will give you more information about the assessments that make up the line graph:
6. If you there are no assessments to be displayed for the period you have selected, the PainChek will notify you:
7. When PainChek has been used to conduct both PainChek and NRS (Numeric Rating Score) assessments for a Resident, the screen will display two charts, one for each assessment type:
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The chart type (PainChek or NRS) is displayed top-left of the chart.
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In this example, the resident has most recently been assessed using PainChek (top graph). Prior to that, they were being assessed using NRS assessments (bottom graph).