Adult emergency department patients with sickle cell pain crisis: Results from a quality improvement learning collaborative model to improve analgesic management

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 430-438

  Tanabe, Paula ^a   Hafner, John W ^b   Martinovich, Zoran ^c   Artz, Nicole ^d,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROMORPHONE; MORPHINE SULFATE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANALGESICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859925180     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01330.x     Document Type: Article

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