Pain Relief in the Emergency Department Waiting Room: a Prevalence Study

Acute Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Antalgie à l'Accueil Des Urgences- étude de prévalence

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03115684
• Other study ID #: 215-00083-(15-272)
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 11, 2017
• Last updated: April 13, 2017
• Start date: March 1, 2016
• Est. completion date: May 30, 2016

Study information

• Verified date: April 2017
• Source: University Hospital, Geneva
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Pain in the emergency room is under documented and pain relief suboptimal. Data on nurse driven analgesia in emergency department waiting rooms is lacking. The primary objective of this study is to determine the proportion of patients in pain receiving pain therapy administered by the triage nurse (prevalence study). The secondary objectives are to 1) describe nursing practices in analgesia and adherence to the dedicated protocol; 2) to determine the factors associated with the non administration of painkillers and for these factors, to estimate the strength of the association

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 2371
• Est. completion date: May 30, 2016
• Est. primary completion date: May 30, 2016
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Documented pain score on arrival by the triage nurse and

• Patients having to wait in the ER waiting room

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients directly admitted to the consultation room

• patients for whom pain was not recorded

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Acute Pain

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Geneva

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Proportion of patients receiving pain medicine in the ER waiting room by the triage nurse after pain documentation		3 month