Three-year hospital-wide pain management system implementation at a tertiary medical center: Pain prevalence analysis.

ABSTRACT: We developed a pain management system over a 3-year period. In this project, "Towards a pain-free hospital", we combined evidence-based medicine and medical expertise to develop a series of policies. The intervention mainly included the development of standard procedures for inpatient pain management, the implementation of hospital-wide pain medicine education and training, the establishment of a dashboard system to track pain status, and regular audits and feedback. This study aimed to gain an understanding of the changes in the prevalence of pain in inpatients under the care of the pain management system. The subjects of the survey are inpatients over 20 years old, and who had been hospitalized in the general ward for at least 3 days. The patients would be excluded if they were unable to

SUBMITTER: Chen MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10101381 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature