Development of an Acute Pain Service Monitoring and Evaluation System

Determining factors that have an impact upon effective evidence‐based pain management with older people, following colorectal surgery: an ethnographic study

“…Since the introduction of Acute Pain Services (APS), it is argued that there has been an improvement in doctors’ and nurses’ attitudes towards pain management (Pasero & Hubbard 1991, Boegeskov Nielson et al. 1994, McLeod et al.…”

Development and validation of the Pain Outcomes Questionnaire-VA

“…Within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the importance of measuring pain treatment effectiveness has been noted in the VHA's National Pain Initiative [2]. Pain treatment specialists have long recognized the need for a uniform method of measuring pain treatment outcomes [3][4][5][6][7]. The development and use of such a system would allow improved evaluation of short-and long-term pain treatment effectiveness, better estimates of the cost effectiveness of interventions, direct comparisons of the outcomes of treatment programs or methods, and improved consumer satisfaction monitoring.…”

Measuring Patient Opinion of Pain Management

“…These guidelines have in turn led to educational campaigns and clinical interventions, including multidisciplinary approaches, designed to implement these standards. [9][10][11][12][13][14] While various methods have been proposed to assess quality of pain management, the AH-CPR has stated "the mainstay of pain assessment should be the patient self-report." 8 Because "pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever he says it does," 15 it stands to reason that the management of such a phenomenon should be evaluated by the patient.…”