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Pain monitoring analysis as a quality indicator: A retrospective study
Dobnik M. Lorber M. Rowles J.
Dobnik M.
Lorber M.
Rowles J.
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De Gruyter
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2023
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Introduction: To improve patient care and safety in hospital clinical settings, evidence-based and internationally comparable quality indicators (QI) need to be developed. The QI best demonstrates the pain management quality. This chapter aims to deliver an overview of the introduction of a pain monitoring QI and its use in clinical practice to evaluate the long-term monitoring effects of the pain QI in a clinical environment at one of the tertiary institutions in Slovenia. Methods: A non-experimental quantitative study was carried out with a probabilistic random sample. Twenty per cent occupancy of the unit/department was analysed, and patient's documentation on the selected day at the tertiary institution for four consecutive years (2016 to 2019) was reviewed. Data were processed using bivariate and multivariate analysis. Results: The study found a nonlinear pain monitoring increase across the five studied variables. The comparison between clinics did not show statistically significant differences (F =6.6, p = 0.14) in the QI variables (pain assessment on admission, before and after therapy, appropriate analgesic, and daily assessment in patients with no pain). Discussion and conclusion: The research provided insight into pain monitoring at a tertiary institution over 4 years. The data obtained might serve as the basis for surveys and policy-making at a national level, including protocol creation. ¿2023 the author(s), published by De Gruyter. All rights reserved.
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Hospital
Pain
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Pain
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Nurse Anesthesia