Audit of Tolerability and Safety of Acute Pain Service

Acute Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Retrospective Study to Evaluate the Tolerability and Safety of Acute Pain Service at Queen Mary Hospital Between 2009 to 2012

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02155413
• Other study ID #: UW14-284
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 2, 2014
• Last updated: June 3, 2014
• Start date: June 2014
• Est. completion date: August 2014

Study information

• Verified date: June 2014
• Source: The University of Hong Kong
• Contact: Chi Wai Cheung, MD
• Phone: 852 22553303
• Email: cheucw[@]hku.hk
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Hong Kong: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Acute pain service (APS) was introduced in 1990s at Queen Mary Hospital (QMH) as other countries. With accumulation of experience and clinical evidence, APS has been well established. A study conducted in 1997 suggested that monitoring, management protocol and nursing experience were mandatory to the safety for APS. Our recent study showed that pain relief of our post-operative patients using patient controlled analgesic with morphine was still not adequate. The results has driven us to continue the improvement of post-operative outcomes for our surgical patients. Tolerability and safety are always our concerns for patients using our APS. Therefore, the investigators aim to conduct this retrospective study in order to assess if the tolerability and safety of our present APS are adequate or not. The study results will help us to further improve our APS at QMH if necessary.

Description:

Retrospective audit.

Acute pain service records at Division of Pain Management, Department of Anaesthesiology, Queen Mary Hospital will be identified, validated and analysed.

Data Collection

1. Demographic data

2. Type of operation

3. Type of pain relief modality

4. Pain score up to 72 hours postoperatively

5. Types of operations and clinical variables

6. Incidence of adverse events during APS care;

7. Patients safety (ie respiratory depression)

Data Analysis For summarising analysis, mean or median with standard deviation or interquartile range will be reported. Parametric and non-parametric comparative tests will be used for analysis between/among patients with various characteristics. Kaplan Meier survival analysis and log-rank test will be used for duration of APS use.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 7500
• Est. completion date: August 2014
• Est. primary completion date: August 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Postoperative patients who were cared by the Acute Pain Service, Pain Management Team, Department of Anaesthesiology, Queen Mary Hospital between 2009 to 2012.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Essential data were missing;

• Patient participating in other research projects.

Study Design

Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Acute Pain

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Hong Kong	Department of Anaesthesiology, The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The University of Hong Kong

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Hong Kong, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Incidence of serious adverse events (i.e respiratory depression)		From Post-operative day 1 to post-operative day 3	No
Primary	Pain score		From postoperative 1 hour to postoperative 72 hour	No
Secondary	Incidence of adverse events		From postoperative 1 hour to postoperative 72 hour	No