Studying Emergency Patients Outside the Emergency Department☆☆☆★

Analgesic Prescribing for Patients Who Are Discharged from an Emergency Department

“…Because it may be days to weeks before patients receive care from other providers, emergency physicians have an important role in helping patients manage pain after ED visits [8]. Although there has been considerable research on pain management while patients are in EDs [6,9], much less attention has been paid to pain management after ED visits, despite several calls for this research [10][11][12][13][14][15].…”

Pain measurement: Understanding existing tools and their application in the emergency department

“…Yet analgesics are prescribed routinely in the ED without measuring the initial pain severity, beyond registering its presence. Similarly, effectiveness of analgesic therapies are not routinely verified prior to discharge, and assessment after discharge is almost unheard of 11,83 …”

Mobile Phone Based Telemonitoring for Improving Adherence to Analgesic Treatment in Trauma Patients After Emergency Department Discharge. Randomized Controlled Trial

“…Indeed, little information is available to quantify pain severity, patient improvement, and return to independent function after ED discharge. 27,28 Mobile-phone-based telemonitoring is described as an inexpensive and easy-to-organize method of postdischarge care in various medical populations and settings. 29,30 It is not surprising that this intervention was shown to improve adherence to analgesic treatment.…”

“…This is of particular interest because ED physicians rarely have the opportunity to follow-up trauma patients in the form of a scheduled visit. Indeed, little information is available to quantify pain severity, patient improvement, and return to independent function after ED discharge 27,28 . Mobile-phone–based telemonitoring is described as an inexpensive and easy-to-organize method of postdischarge care in various medical populations and settings 29,30 .…”