Meeting high-risk patient pain care needs through intensive primary care: a secondary analysis.
BMJ Open
; 14(1): e080748, 2024 01 02.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Chronic pain disproportionately affects medically and psychosocially complex patients, many of whom are at high risk of hospitalisation. Pain prevalence among high-risk patients, however, is unknown, and pain is seldom a focus for improving high-risk patient outcomes. Our objective is to (1) evaluate pain frequency in a high-risk patient population and (2) identify intensive management (IM) programme features that patients and providers perceive as important for promoting patient-centred pain care within primary care (PC)-based IM.DESIGN:
Secondary observational analysis of quantitative and qualitative evaluation data from a multisite randomised PC-based IM programme for high-risk patients.SETTING:
Five integrated local Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare systems within distinct VA administrative regions.PARTICIPANTS:
Staff and high-risk PC patients in the VA. INTERVENTION A multisite randomised PC-based IM programme for high-risk patients. OUTCOMEMEASURES:
(a) Pain prevalence based on VA electronic administrative data and (b) transcripts of interviews with IM staff and patients that mentioned pain.RESULTS:
Most (70%, 2593/3723) high-risk patients had at least moderate pain. Over one-third (38%, 40/104) of the interviewees mentioned pain or pain care. There were 89 pain-related comments addressing IM impacts on pain care within the 40 interview transcripts. Patient-identified themes were that IM improved communication and responsiveness to pain. PC provider-identified themes were that IM improved workload and access to expertise. IM team member-identified themes were that IM improved pain care coordination, facilitated non-opioid pain management options and mitigated provider compassion fatigue. No negative IM impacts on pain care were mentioned.CONCLUSIONS:
Pain is common among high-risk patients. Future IM evaluations should consider including a focus on pain and pain care, with attention to impacts on patients, PC providers and IM teams.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Veteranos
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Dolor Crónico
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
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Etiology_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
BMJ Open
Año:
2024
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos