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Characterizing the pain score trajectories of hospitalized adult medical and surgical patients: a retrospective cohort study.
The authors described a 1-year, retrospective, observational study to characterize pain trajectories of hospitalized adults during the first 48 hours after admission at an urban academic medical center. They found that trajectories showed differences based on race, gender, service, and initial pain score, with patients presumed to have dissimilar pain experiences having markedly different pain trajectories. Pain reduction 48 hours after admission was approximately 50% of the initial pain, while most patients' pain failed to fully resolve.
AHRQ-funded; HS021093.
Citation: Kannampallil T, Galanter WL, Falck S .
Characterizing the pain score trajectories of hospitalized adult medical and surgical patients: a retrospective cohort study.
Pain 2016 Dec;157(12):2739-46. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000693.
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Keywords: Diagnostic Safety and Quality, Hospitalization, Pain