Three-year hospital-wide pain management system implementation at a tertiary medical center: Pain prevalence analysis.
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...
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| author | Ming-Chuan Chen Te-Feng Yeh Chih-Cheng Wu Yan-Ru Wang Chieh-Liang Wu Ruei-Ling Chen Ching-Hui Shen |
| author_facet | Ming-Chuan Chen Te-Feng Yeh Chih-Cheng Wu Yan-Ru Wang Chieh-Liang Wu Ruei-Ling Chen Ching-Hui Shen |
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| description | 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 respond to the questions. We randomly selected eligible patients in the general ward. Our trained interviewers visited inpatients to complete the questionnaires designed by our pain care specialists. A total of 3,094 inpatients completed the survey from 2018 to 2020. During the three-year period, the prevalence of pain was 69.5% (2018) (reference), 63.3% (2019) (OR:0.768, p<0.01), and 60.1% (2020) (OR:0.662, p <0.001). The prevalence rates of pain in patients undergoing surgery during the 3-year period were 81.4% (2018), 74.3% (2019), and 68.8% (2020), respectively. As for care-related causes of pain, injection, change in position/chest percussion, and rehabilitation showed a decreasing trend over the 3-year period of study. Our pain management system provided immediate professional pain management, and achieved a good result in the management of acute moderate to severe pain, especially perioperative pain. Studies on pain prevalence and Pain-Free Hospitals are scarce in Asia. With the aid of the policies based on evidence-based medicine and the dashboard information system, from 2018 to 2020, the prevalence of pain has decreased year by year. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3f98e5aa089f4343a67d97e9f1bda7572023-04-21T05:32:12ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032023-01-01184e028352010.1371/journal.pone.0283520Three-year hospital-wide pain management system implementation at a tertiary medical center: Pain prevalence analysis.Ming-Chuan ChenTe-Feng YehChih-Cheng WuYan-Ru WangChieh-Liang WuRuei-Ling ChenChing-Hui ShenWe 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 respond to the questions. We randomly selected eligible patients in the general ward. Our trained interviewers visited inpatients to complete the questionnaires designed by our pain care specialists. A total of 3,094 inpatients completed the survey from 2018 to 2020. During the three-year period, the prevalence of pain was 69.5% (2018) (reference), 63.3% (2019) (OR:0.768, p<0.01), and 60.1% (2020) (OR:0.662, p <0.001). The prevalence rates of pain in patients undergoing surgery during the 3-year period were 81.4% (2018), 74.3% (2019), and 68.8% (2020), respectively. As for care-related causes of pain, injection, change in position/chest percussion, and rehabilitation showed a decreasing trend over the 3-year period of study. Our pain management system provided immediate professional pain management, and achieved a good result in the management of acute moderate to severe pain, especially perioperative pain. Studies on pain prevalence and Pain-Free Hospitals are scarce in Asia. With the aid of the policies based on evidence-based medicine and the dashboard information system, from 2018 to 2020, the prevalence of pain has decreased year by year.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283520 |
| spellingShingle | Ming-Chuan Chen Te-Feng Yeh Chih-Cheng Wu Yan-Ru Wang Chieh-Liang Wu Ruei-Ling Chen Ching-Hui Shen Three-year hospital-wide pain management system implementation at a tertiary medical center: Pain prevalence analysis. PLoS ONE |
| title | Three-year hospital-wide pain management system implementation at a tertiary medical center: Pain prevalence analysis. |
| title_full | Three-year hospital-wide pain management system implementation at a tertiary medical center: Pain prevalence analysis. |
| title_fullStr | Three-year hospital-wide pain management system implementation at a tertiary medical center: Pain prevalence analysis. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Three-year hospital-wide pain management system implementation at a tertiary medical center: Pain prevalence analysis. |
| title_short | Three-year hospital-wide pain management system implementation at a tertiary medical center: Pain prevalence analysis. |
| title_sort | three year hospital wide pain management system implementation at a tertiary medical center pain prevalence analysis |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283520 |
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