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Selected AbstractsPostoperative pain management: Study of patients' level of pain and satisfaction with health care providers' responsiveness to their reports of painNURSING & HEALTH SCIENCES, Issue 1 2003Joanne W. Y. Chung RN Abstract The present prospective survey was conducted in a 1200-bed hospital to examine postoperative patients' current pain intensity, most intense pain experienced, satisfaction with postoperative pain management, and differences regarding pain and satisfaction levels. All adult patients admitted to a hospital in Hong Kong for surgery, except those receiving local anesthesia, were eligible to enter this study. The patient outcome questionnaire developed by the American Pain Society was used to solicit data about patients' pain and satisfaction with pain relief. The subjects were 294 postoperative patients. Approximately 85% complained about varying degrees of pain during the 24 h prior to the assessment of their pain. When interviewed, most patients complained of mild to moderate pain (median = 2 on a 10-point scale), while the median for ,worst pain intensity' was 5. Approximately 80% of the subjects indicated that both the nurses and physicians reminded them to report pain when it occurred. Only 143 (48.6%) agreed that the nurses and physicians sufficiently emphasized the importance of pain relief. Those who received acute pain services, provided by anesthetists, reported lower levels of current pain intensity. Over 65% of the subjects were satisfied with all levels of health care providers, regarding their postoperative pain management. [source] Palliative Care and Pain Medicine Come Together to Optimally Treat Cancer Pain: What We Can Learn from the British Pain SocietyPAIN MEDICINE, Issue 5 2010Allen W. Burton MD No abstract is available for this article. [source] Medication Quantification Scale Version III: Internal Validation of Detriment Weights Using a Chronic Pain PopulationPAIN PRACTICE, Issue 1 2008Michael Gallizzi MS ,,Abstract Introduction: We report an internal validation of the Medication Quantification Scale (MQS III) using a chronic pain population. The MQS was designed as a methodology of quantifying different drug regimens in 1992, updated in 1998 (MQS II), and again updated in 2003 (MQS III) using "detriment" weights determined by surveying physician members of the American Pain Society. The MQS has been used as a unitary clinical and research outcome. Methods: A retrospective chart review was collected from 400 patients in an interdisciplinary outpatient chronic pain clinic. A linear regression equation was developed using the patients' composite MQS III score, and those values were used in a Pearson correlation analysis. Results: The correlation between the subjects' computed regression detriment weights and the corresponding MQS III detriment weights yielded a significant result (r = 0.962, P < 0.01; two-tailed). Discussion: Our chronic pain sample-derived detriment weights did differ in some drug classes from that of the physician consensus, most notably the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, Opioid Schedule II, and NSAID class detriment. It is necessary to periodically resurvey large groups of physicians in order to control and modify the detriment weights of our categories in light of new information about detrimental effects (eg, COX-2 inhibitors), or to accommodate medical or political changes in prescribing habits (eg, more liberal opioid prescribing in the later years). This work suggests it may also be important to assess patients' perspective on detriment, as well as statistical and empiric use patterns.,, [source] Are We Training Future Pain Specialists?PAIN PRACTICE, Issue 4 2003Janice M. Livengood PhD ,,Abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine whether pain practices in Tennessee are training future pain specialists. Following IRB approval, a questionnaire designed for the study was administered to members of the TN Pain Society. Results indicate that none of the subjects are training residents at their pain practice and the majority are not training pain fellows. Few attendings reported having trained in a pain fellowship themselves and the majority are reportedly not engaged in continuing pain management education through national or international organizations, such as the American Pain Society (APS) or the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). Of concern is whether or not this sample reflects the nature of pain practices throughout the country. If so, will there be a shortage of pain residents and fellows in the near future? Will pain practices be opened and operated by those who are not trained to treat chronic pain?,, [source] Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Pain Society in Manchester, April 2010ANAESTHESIA, Issue 10 2010Article first published online: 12 AUG 2010 No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||