Improving Pain Management for Older Adults in the Emergency Department (ED)

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Abdominal Pain Care

In brief

The goals of this exploratory study are to determine the feasibility of integrating electronic clinical decision support into routine clinical pain care for adults in the ED setting and gather data on whether or not such clinical decision support is effective in improving pain care outcomes in the ED. The use of an electronic pain care alert (ePCA) prompting doctors to provide acute pain care for adult patients with complaints of severe abdominal pain will be compared to patients seen by clinicians with routine ED care. Hypothesis: The ePCA will improve the quality of acute pain care for patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01962610

Run by

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

People needed

4693

Starts

2011-06-01

Expected to finish

2015-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-11-05

Who can join

Age: 20 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Resident physicians will be included if:
• they provide care to adult patients in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai's ED.
• Patients will be enrolled for survey and/or medical record review if
• All adult (≥20 years) patients seen in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai's ED
• with severe pain (≥10 on a verbal pain scale of 0-10, 0=none, 10=severe)
• and chief complaints of abdominal pain will be eligible for retrospective and/or medical record review and prospective survey at ED discharge.

Where it is running

• Icahn School of Mediciine at Mount Sinai — New York, New York, United States

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