Pain assessment for people with dementia: a systematic review of systematic reviews of pain assessment tools

BMC Geriatrics

Table 7 Summary of how often the tools appear in the reviews (in alphabetical order)

Name of tool	Number of reviews they appear in	Review IDs
Abbey pain scale	7	[21, 24, 25, 30, 33, 35, 36]
ADD Protocol	5	[24, 30, 33, 34, 36]
Behavior checklist	2	[24, 36]
CNPI	8	[21, 24, 25, 30, 33–36]
Comfort checklist	1	[34]
CPAT	1	[35]
Doloplus-2	6	[21, 24, 25, 30, 33, 35]
DS-DAT	6	[24, 25, 30, 33, 34, 36]
ECPA	1	[21]
ECS	1	[21]
EPCA-2	1	[25]
FACS	1	[24]
FLACC	1	[33]
Mahoney pain scale	1	[35]
MOBID	3	[25, 35, 36]
NOPPAIN	7	[21, 24, 25, 30, 33, 35, 36]
Observational pain behaviour tool	2	[21, 34]
PACSLAC	7	[21, 24, 25, 30, 33, 35, 36]
PADE	7	[21, 24, 25, 30, 33, 34, 36]
Pain assessment scale for use with cognitively impaired adults	1	[21]
PAINAD	8	[21, 24, 25, 30, 33–36]
PAINE	1	[25]
PATCOA	2	[24, 36]
PBM	1	[24]
PPI	1	[25]
PPQ	1	[34]
RaPID	1	[21]
REPOS	1	[35]

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