Enhancing the use of pain assessment at emergency department: a best practice implementation project
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14110%2F22%3A00126982" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14110/22:00126982 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.lww.com/ijebh/Abstract/2022/08001/Enhancing_the_use_of_pain_assessment_at_emergency.3.aspx" target="_blank" >https://journals.lww.com/ijebh/Abstract/2022/08001/Enhancing_the_use_of_pain_assessment_at_emergency.3.aspx</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/XEB.0000000000000314" target="_blank" >10.1097/XEB.0000000000000314</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Enhancing the use of pain assessment at emergency department: a best practice implementation project
Original language description
Objectives: The main aim of the best practice implementation project was to enhance the use of pain assessment and the compliance with evidence-based criteria regarding pain assessment among incoming patients to emergency department. Introduction: Adequate approaches to pain assessment and documentation have been demonstrated beneficial for emergency department patients. Evidence-based recommendations establish a focus on education about the implications for evaluating and recording pain in order to improve outcome strategies and quality of care. Methods: The implementation project was undertaken in the emergency department following JBI Implementation framework in order to seek whether pain assessment was taken and registered as per protocols. Random selection for 100 anonymized emergency department admission episodes, which had to meet the specified inclusion criteria, was carried out. Results: The baseline audit showed low compliance in criterion 3 (C3) ‘Pain was documented in each assessment’ (6%), C4 ‘Pain was assessed after treatment’ (9%) and C5 ‘Pain was assessed prior to discharge’ (10%). In the follow-up audit, noticeable improvement was shown for four of the criteria; C3 (14%), C4 (22%) and for C5 (41%). C1 ‘Pain was assessed in a timely manner’ improved from 81% up to 95%. C2 ‘Use of a validated scoring tool’ had a compliance of 100% as the hospital's assessing system default has NRS-11 scale set up. Conclusion: We performed an audit of pain assessment documentation. Enhancing the use of pain assessment among emergency department nurses by means of specific training emphasizing the importance of documentation showed a positive impact on practice. Follow-up audit results justify the continuity of the implemented strategies.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30218 - General and internal medicine
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
JBI EVIDENCE IMPLEMENTATION
ISSN
2691-3321
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
20
Issue of the periodical within the volume
Supplement 1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
„S15“-„S22“
UT code for WoS article
000858607100003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85141680308