PMID: 11915057Mar 27, 2002Paper

A survey of acute pain services in Germany and a discussion of international survey data

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
Ulrike M StamerChristoph Maier

Abstract

Acute pain services (APS) have been introduced worldwide to improve postoperative pain management. However, data are lacking on organization and quality of these services in Germany. A questionnaire on postoperative pain management was mailed to 773 departments of anesthesiology. Practice was compared between hospitals with and without APS and between services that did or did not meet basic quality criteria (QC): personnel assigned for APS, policies during nights and weekends, written protocols of pain management, and regular assessment and documentation of pain scores at least once a day. With 446 responding hospitals, 161 operated an APS. Large hospitals organized an APS more frequently than smaller hospitals (P <.001). Staff being assigned for the APS comprised anesthesiologists in 68.3% and nurses in 23.6% of the departments. In total, only half of the APS complied with basic QC. Regular assessment and documentation of pain scores were the QC most often missing (46.6%). Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) was performed in 93.8%, 74.1%, and 69.8% of the departments providing APS with QC, APS without QC, and no APS. Epidural analgesia (EA) was available in nearly all departments (96.9%). A total of 75.6% of the departments per...Continue Reading

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