Implementation of a clinical practice guideline for assessment and management of renal colic in the emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Renal colic is a common emergency department (ED) presentation. Variations in assessment and management of suspected renal colic may have significant implications on patient and hospital outcomes. We developed a clinical practice guideline to standardize the assessment and management of renal colic in the ED. We subsequently compared outcomes before and after guideline implementation.

Methods

The guideline standardizes the analgesia regimen, urology consult criteria, imaging modality, patient education, and followup instructions. This is a single-center, observational cohort study of patients presenting to the ED with renal colic prospectively collected after guideline implementation (December 2018 to May 2019) compared to a control group retrospectively collect

SUBMITTER: Pham CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10382218 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature