Multifaceted education initiative minimizes pethidine prescribing in the emergency department

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-30

  Taylor, Simone E ^a   Braitberg, George ^a   Lugt, Josephine ^a  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Meperidine; Morphine; Pain management; Pethidine

Indexed keywords

CODEINE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; PETHIDINE; TRAMADOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BILIARY COLIC; DISLOCATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG USE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; KIDNEY COLIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL STAFF; MIGRAINE; NURSING STAFF; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PANCREATITIS; PHARMACIST; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; AUSTRALIA; DRUG UTILIZATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MEPERIDINE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33846850407     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2006.00911.x     Document Type: Article

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