Actions to improve documented pain assessment in adult patients with injury to the upper extremities at the Emergency Department - A cross-sectional study.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Pain is one of the most common symptoms in the Emergency Department (ED) and is the cause of more than half of the visits to the ED. Several attempts to improve pain management have been done by using, for example, standards/guidelines and education. To our knowledge no one has investigated if and how different actions over a longitudinal period affect the frequency of pain documentation in the ED. Therefore the aim of this study was to describe the frequency of documented pain assessments in the ED. METHOD:A cross-sectional study during 2006-2012 was conducted. The care of patients with wrist/arm fractures or soft tissue injuries on upper extremities was evaluated. RESULT:Despite various actions our result shows that mandatory pain assessment in the patient's computerized medical record was the only successful intervention to improve the frequencies of documentation of pain assessment during care in the ED. During the study period, no documentation of reassessment of pain was found despite the fact that all patients received pain medication. CONCLUSION:To succeed in increasing the frequency of documented pain assessment, mandatory pain rating is a successful action. However, the re-evaluation of documented pain assessment was nonexisting.

journal_name

Int Emerg Nurs

authors

Sturesson L,Lindström V,Castrén M,Niemi-Murola L,Falk AC

doi

10.1016/j.ienj.2015.06.006

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-03-01 00:00:00

pages

3-6

eissn

1755-599X

issn

1878-013X

pii

S1755-599X(15)00076-2

journal_volume

25

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