Pain management in a medical walk-in clinic: Link between recommended processes and pain relief

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 274-280

  Perron, Noelle Junod ^a   Bovier, Patrick ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Pain management; Pain relief; Walk in clinic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SWITZERLAND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34648814063     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: 14643677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzm032     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. McNeill JA, Sherwood GD, Starck PL, Thompson CJ. Assessing clinical outcomes: Patient satisfaction with pain management. J Pain Symptom Manage 1998;16:29-40.
2. Salomon L, Tcherny-Lessenot S, Collin E et al. Pain prevalence in a French teaching hospital. J Pain Symptom Manage 2002; 24 586-92.
3. Ducharme J, Barber C. A prospective blinded study on emergency pain assessment and therapy. J Emerg Med 1995;13:571-5.
4. Todd KH, Samaroo N, Hoffman JR. Ethnicity as a risk factor for inadequate emergency department analgesia. JAMA 1993;269 1537-9.
5. Todd KH, Lee T, Hoffman JR. The effect of ethnicity on physician estimates of pain severity in patients with isolated extremity trauma. JAMA 1994;271:925-8.
6. Guru V, Dubinsky I. The patient vs. caregiver perception of acute pain in the emergency department. J Emerg Med 2000;18:7-12.
7. Gordon DB, Dahl JL. Quality improvement challenges in pain management. Pain 2004;107:1-4.
8. Steffen C, Salomon L, Tcherny-Lessenot S et al. Involvement of medical staff in the assessment of pain. J Pain Symptom Manage 2002;24:289-90.
9. Ward SE, Gordon D. Application of the American Pain Society quality assurance standards. Pain 1994;56:299-306.
10. Rupp T, Delaney KA. Inadequate analgesia in emergency medicine. Ann Emerg Med 2004;43:494-503.
11. Wolfe JM, Lein DY, Lenkoski K et al. Analgesic administration to patients with an acute abdomen: A survey of emergency medicine physicians. Am J Emerg Med 2000;18:250-3.
12. Zimmerman O, Halpern P. Opinion survey of analgesia for abdominal pain in Israeli emergency departments. Isr Med Assoc J 2004;6 681-5.
13. Bovier PA, Charvet A, Cleopas A et al. Self-reported management of pain in hospitalized patients: Link between process and outcome. Am J Med 2004;117:569-74.
14. Stahmer SA, Shofer FS, Marino A et al. Do quantitative changes in pain intensity correlate with pain relief and satisfaction? Acad Emerg Med 1998;5:851-7.
15. Barletta JF, Erstad BL, Loew M et al. A prospective study of pain control in the emergency department. Am J Ther 2000;7:251-5.
16. Eder SC, Sloan EP, Todd K. Documentation of ED patient pain by nurses and physicians. Am J Emerg Med 2003;21:253-7.
17. Kelly AM. Patient satisfaction with pain management does not correlate with initial or discharge VAS pain score, verbal pain ratin at discharge, or change in VAS score in the Emergency Department. J Emerg Med 2000;19:113-6.
18. Junod Perron N, Piguet V, Bovier PA. Long-term effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention on pain management in a walk-in clinic. QJM 2007;100:225-32.
19. Cleary PD, Edgman-Levitan S, Roberts M et al. Patients evaluate their hospital care: A national survey. Health Aff (Millwood) 1991;10:254-67.
20. Jenkinson C, Coulter A, Bruster S. The Picker Patient Experience Questionnaire: Development and validation using data from in-patient surveys in five countries. Int J Qual Health Care 2002;14 353-8.
21. Ware JE, Snow KK, Kosinski M et al. SF-36 Health Survey: Manual and Interpretation Guide. Boston, Massachusets: The Health Institute, 1993.
22. WONCA ICCo. ICPC-2 International Classification of Primary Care. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
23. Ahles TA, Seville J, Wasson J et al. Panel-based pain management in primary care. A pilot study. J Pain Symptom Manage 2001;22 584-90.
24. Tcherny-Lessenot S, Karwowski-Soulie F, Lamarche-Vadel A et al. Management and relief of pain in an emergency department from the adult patients' perspective. J Pain Symptom Manage 2003;25:539-46.
25. Tanabe P, Buschmann M. A prospective study of ED pain management practices and the patient's perspective. J. Emerg Nurs 1999;25 171-7.
26. Nevin K. Influence of sex on pain assessment and management. Ann Emerg Med 1996;27:424-6.
27. Raftery KA, Smith-Coggins R, Chen AH. Gender-associated differences in emergency department pain management. Ann Emerg Med 1995;26 414-21.
28. Todd KH, Deaton C, D'Adamo AP et al. Ethnicity and analgesic practice. Ann Emerg Med 2000;35:11-6.
29. Fosnocht DE, Heaps ND, Swanson ER. Patient expectations for pain relief in the ED. Am J Emerg Med 2004;22:286-8.
30. Brauer C, Thomsen JF, Loft IP et al. Can we rely on retrospective pain assessments? Am J Epidemiol 2003;157:552-7.
31. Committee APSQoC. Quality improvement guidelines for the treatment of acute pain and cancer pain. American Pain Society Quality of Care Committee. JAMA 1995;274:1874-80.
32. Gordon DB, Dahl JL, Miaskowski C et al. American pain society recommendations for improving the quality of acute and cancer pain management: American Pain Society Quality of Care Task Force. Arch Intern Med 2005;165:1574-80.