Articles: pain-clinics.
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Multicenter Study
Prevalence and characteristics of breakthrough pain in patients receiving opioids for chronic back pain in pain specialty clinics.
We sought to assess the prevalence and characteristics of breakthrough pain (BTP) in patients with chronic back pain. ⋯ These patients with opioid-treated chronic back pain commonly experienced BTP, which often had a rapid onset and a relatively short duration and was difficult to predict. Opioids were the mainstay of pharmacologic therapy, but nonopioid analgesics and adjuvant analgesics were commonly used.
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Multicenter Study
Rhetoric and reality on acute pain services in the UK: a national postal questionnaire survey.
The study aimed to explore the extent to which NHS acute pain services (APSs) have been established in accordance with national guidance, and to assess the degree to which clinicians in acute pain management believe that these services are fulfilling their role. ⋯ More than a decade since the 1990 report Pain after Surgery, national coverage of comprehensive acute pain services is still far from being achieved. Despite wide consensus about the problems, concrete solutions are proving hard to implement. There is strong support for a two-fold response: securing greater political commitment to pain services and using organizational approaches to address current deficits.
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Comment Letter Multicenter Study
Effectiveness of acute postoperative pain management.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Chronic daily headache in children and adolescents presenting to tertiary headache clinics.
Adults with chronic daily headache often describe a transformation from episodic migraine and partial retention of migrainous features. Although chronic daily headache has not been investigated as carefully in the pediatric population, one study showed a predominance of coexisting daily headache and episodic migraine, without a clear history of transformation. ⋯ Our data suggest that rather than having two coexistent headache types, children and adolescents with chronic daily headache have a single syndrome that, in many cases, will paroxysmally worsen and gather migrainous features.
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Jt Comm J Qual Improv · Jul 2000
Multicenter StudyImplementing emergency department observation units within a multihospital network.
The proportion of emergency department (ED) chest pain patients who undergo an extended "rule out MI (myocardial infarction)" evaluation beyond the ED determines both the quality and cost of patient care. The higher an organization's rate of such evaluations, the lower the average miss rate for MI. Five of the 13 hospitals in the Voluntary Hospital Association Northeast multihospital network implemented ED observation units by June 1997 for outpatient rule out MI evaluations. ⋯ ED observation units represent a cost-effective restructuring of the diagnostic approach to patients with acute chest pain. In an improvement of quality of patient care, a larger proportion of ED chest pain patients receive an extended evaluation than is possible with hospital admission as the only ED disposition option.