Record Status This is a bibliographic record of a published health technology assessment from a member of INAHTA. No evaluation of the quality of this assessment has been made for the HTA database. Citation Korczak D, Kuczera C, Rust M
. Akutschmerztherapie auf operativen und konservativen stationen. [Acute pain treatment on postoperative and medical non-surgical wards] Cologne: German Agency for Health Technology Assessment at the German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (DAHTA DIMDI). 2013 Authors' objectives The Health Technology Assessment (HTA)-report deals with questions about the effectiveness of acute pain treatment in hospital as well as the effectiveness of the organisation of acute pain service (APS) and the quality assurance of inpatient acute pain treatment. Authors' conclusions Acute pain treatment on postoperative and medical non-surgical wards is (cost) effective (by reducing the stays in hospital), but still has to be improved.
Recommendations are a further systematic expansion of APS, regular trainings on acute pain treatment for the staff, a comprising and regular documentation of the pain monitoring and medical treatment including side effects, written guidelines about standardised pain treatment, solutions for the interface problems between care providers as well as a performance-related cost allocation. Psychological aspects (e. g. anxiety) are covered insufficiently. Gaps in research in the outpatient postoperative acute pain treatment have to be filled.
The treatment of acute pain on medical non-surgical wards is in urgent need of improvement. Indexing Status Subject indexing assigned by CRD MeSH Analgesics; Chronic Pains; Germany; Inpatients; Pain Management; Pain, Postoperative; Patient Outcome Assessment; Patient Satisfaction; Treatment Outcome Country of organisation Germany English summary An English language summary is available. Address for correspondence German Agency for Health Technology Assessment at the German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information, Waisenhausgasse 36-38a, D-50676 Cologne Germany Email: dahta@dimdi.de AccessionNumber 32015000369 Date abstract record published 16/03/2015 |