Emergency department crowding and decreased quality of pain care

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1248-1255

  Hwang, Ula ^a,b   Richardson, Lynne ^a   Livote, Elayne ^b   Harris, Ben ^a   Spencer, Natasha ^a   Morrison, R Sean ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Pain; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CODEINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; FAMOTIDINE; FENTANYL; HYDROMORPHONE; IBUPROFEN; KETOROLAC; LANSOPRAZOLE; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROWDING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESICS; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57349113915     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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