Acute Pain Resolution After an Emergency Department Visit: A 14-Day Trajectory Analysis

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Raoul DaoustJean-Marc Chauny

Abstract

The objective of the study is to evaluate the acute pain intensity evolution in emergency department (ED) discharged patients, using group-based trajectory modeling. This method identifies patient groups with similar profiles of change over time without assuming the existence of a particular pattern or number of groups. This was a prospective cohort study of ED patients aged 18 years or older, with an acute pain condition (≤2 weeks), and discharged with an opioid prescription. Patients completed a 14-day diary assessing daily pain intensity level (numeric rating scale of 0 to 10) and pain medication use. Among the 372 included patients, 6 distinct post-ED pain intensity trajectories were identified. Two started with severe levels of pain; one remained with severe pain intensity (12.6% of the sample) and the other ended with a moderate pain intensity level (26.3%). Two other trajectories had severe initial pain; one decreased to mild pain (21.7%) and the other to no pain (13.8%). Another trajectory had moderate initial pain that decreased to a mild level (15.9%) and the last one started with mild pain intensity and had no pain at the end of the 14-day period (9.7%). The pain trajectory patterns were significantly associated with...Continue Reading

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Jan 17, 2020·Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine·Howard S KimDavid Cella
Feb 14, 2020·Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine : JCSM : Official Publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine·Gilles J LavigneMarc O Martel
Mar 11, 2020·Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine·Joshua RingStephanie A Eucker
Mar 19, 2021·Pain Medicine : the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine·Emine O BaymanJennifer A Rabbitts
Aug 14, 2021·The American Journal of Emergency Medicine·Skyler ChouinardJoshua Radke

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