Reducing time to analgesia in the emergency department using a nurse-initiated pain protocol: a before-and-after study.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: acute pain; Other - Research that is not of generic health relevance and not applicable to specific health categories listed above

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000953932
• Lead Sponsor: Professor Judith Finn

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2011-09-05
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 288

Inclusion Criteria

All adult patients presenting to the ED with pain

Exclusion Criteria

Patients meeting the following conditions were excluded: presented with chest pain of presumed cardiac origin or headache; were triaged as emergency or urgent (Australasian Triage Score 1 & 2)[12]; exhibited unstable vital signs; were pregnant or lactating; had known contraindications to one of the study drugs; declined analgesia; or already had an analgesia related management plan in place.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
time to first pain score[time interval from time of arrival at triage in ED to time of first pain assessment score (in minutes)];time to analgesia[time interval from time of arrival at triage in ED to time of first analgesic drug administered (in minutes)]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
adequacy of analgesic effect as defined by Jao et al Emergency Medicine Australasia 2011, 23(2):195-201[pain score recorded after first analgesic medication administered]