J Emerg Med
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Multicenter Study
Impact of Age on Pain Perception for Typical Painful Diagnoses in the Emergency Department.
Age-related differences in pain perception have been demonstrated in experimental settings but have been investigated scarcely and without valid scale in the clinical framework. ⋯ Older patients perceive similar pain for dislocation and extremity fractures and less for visceral and headache/migraine pain; however, these age differences may not be clinically important.