Pain Management Nursing
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 45-55 , March 2010

Pain Prevalence Study in a Large Canadian Teaching Hospital. Round 2: Lessons Learned?

  • Jason Sawyer, RN, ACNP

      Affiliations

    • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Jason Sawyer, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Acute Pain Service, Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Hospital, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5.
    • ,
  • Lynn Haslam, RN, ACNP

      Affiliations

    • Holland Orthopaedic and Arthritic Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Pat Daines, RN, MN, CHPCN(C)

      Affiliations

    • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Kalli Stilos, RN, MScN, CHPCN(C)

      Affiliations

    • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Received 15 October 2008 ,Revised 19 January 2009 ,Accepted 26 January 2009.

References 

  1. Apfelbaum JL, Chen C, Mehta S, Gan T. Postoperative pain experience: Results from a national survey suggest postoperative pain continues to be undermanaged. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 2003;97(2):534–540
  2. Bostrom BM, Ramberg T, Davis BD, Fridlund B. Survey of post-operative patients’ pain management. Journal of Nursing Management. 1997;5:341–349
  3. Canadian Pain Society (2008). Accreditation pain standard: Making it happen. Retrieved November 2, 2008: http://www.canadianpainsociety.ca/accreditation_manual.pdf.
  4. Dihle A, Helseth S, Kongsgaard UE, Paul SM, Miaskowski C. Using the American Pain Society's Patient Outcome Questionnaire to evaluate the quality of postoperative pain management in a sample of Norwegian patients. The Journal of Pain. 2006;7(4):272–280
  5. Gordon DB, Pellino TA, Miaskowski C, McNeill JA, Paice JA, Laferriere D, et al. A 10-year review of quality improvement monitoring in pain management: recommendations for standardized outcome measures. Pain Management Nursing. 2002;3(4):116–130
  6. Gordon DB, Dahl J, Phillips P, Frandsen J, Cowley C, Foster RL, et al. The use of “as-needed” range orders for opioid analgesics in the management of acute pain: a consensus statement of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing and the American Pain Society. Pain Management Nursing. 2004;5(2):53–58
  7. Melotti RM, Samolsky-Dekel BG, Ricchi E, Chiari P, Di Giacinto I, Carosi F, et al. Pain prevalence and predictors among inpatients in a major Italian teaching hospital. A baseline survey toward a pain free hospital. European Journal of Pain. 2005;9:485–495
  8. Miaskowski C, Nichols R, Brody R. Assessment of patient satisfaction utilizing the American Pain Society's quality assurance standards on acute and cancer-related pain. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 1994;9(1):5–11
  9. National Research Council & Picker (2008). Acute care patient experience—physical comfort. Retrieved September, 12, 2008, from Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre Corporate web site: http://nrcpicker.com/.
  10. Ontario Joint Policy & Planning Committee (2006). Recommendations to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care on hospital accountability indicators for 2007/08, no. 102. Retrieved August 12, 2007: http://www.jppc.org/ha/HAA%20Indicators%202007-08%20Report_Final.pdf.
  11. Sawyer J, Haslam L, Robinson S, Daines P, Stilos K. Pain prevalence in a large Canadian teaching hospital. Pain Management Nursing. 2008;9(3):104–112
  12. Taylor EM, Boyer K, Campbell FA. Pain in hospitalized children: A prospective cross-sectional survey of pain prevalence, intensity, assessment and management in a Canadian pediatric teaching hospital. Pain Research & Management. 2008;13(1):25–32
  13. Ward SE, Gordon D. Application of the American Pain Society quality assurance standards. Pain. 1994;56:299–306

PII: S1524-9042(09)00021-6

doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2009.01.002

Pain Management Nursing
Volume 11, Issue 1 , Pages 45-55 , March 2010

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution