Pain Relief in the Emergency Department Waiting Room: a Prevalence Study
Completed
- Conditions
- Acute Pain
- Registration Number
- NCT03115684
- Lead Sponsor
- University Hospital, Geneva
- Brief Summary
Pain in the emergency room is under documented and pain relief suboptimal. Data on nurse driven analgesia in emergency department waiting rooms is lacking. The primary objective of this study is to determine the proportion of patients in pain receiving pain therapy administered by the triage nurse (prevalence study). The secondary objectives are to 1) describe nursing practices in analgesia and adherence to the dedicated protocol; 2) to determine the factors associated with the non administration of painkillers and for these factors, to estimate the strength of the association
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2371
Inclusion Criteria
- Documented pain score on arrival by the triage nurse and
- Patients having to wait in the ER waiting room
Exclusion Criteria
- patients directly admitted to the consultation room
- patients for whom pain was not recorded
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of patients receiving pain medicine in the ER waiting room by the triage nurse after pain documentation 3 month
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method