Pain management policy formulation at a tertiary care teaching institute in India: A prospective observational study.
Indian J Public Health
; 66(2): 109-112, 2022.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35859490
ABSTRACT
Background:
Access to pain management has been recognized as a fundamental human right. Inadequate pain relief hampers the quality of life and has a physiological and psychosocial impact on the patient and caregivers. Inadequate pain relief remains the leading cause of suffering in hospitalized patients worldwide.Objective:
The objective of this article is to provide adequate pain relief to hospitalized patients through proper assessment, treatment, and monitoring of pain by the trained health-care workers through a sustainable and effective institutional pain management policy.Methods:
The formulation of pain management policy at a tertiary care teaching institute was conducted in three phases - Phase 1 need assessment by an open-label, uncontrolled, prospective observational study over 1 month period, Phase 2 teaching, training, and awareness of health-care workers, and Phase 3 constitution of the committee at the institute level with the formation of pain resource teams.Results:
An open-label, prospective observational study conducted over 1 month revealed that among 814 hospitalized patients, 108 out of 235 (46%) patients in medical and 385 out of 579 (66.5%) patients in the surgical cohort had NRS score of ≥3, implying an inadequate pain relief even at 24 h following medical or surgical intervention, respectively.Conclusion:
The provision of effective and adequate pain relief to hospitalized patients requires trained health-care workers and a uniform and structured pain management policy at the institutional level. Recognition and addressal of the barriers and challenges while framing an institutional pain policy is of utmost importance.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Organizational Policy
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Pain Management
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Tertiary Care Centers
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Hospitals, Teaching
Type of study:
Observational_studies
Aspects:
Patient_preference
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
En
Journal:
Indian J Public Health
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
India