TY - T1 - Actions to improve documented pain assessment in adult patients with injury to the upper extremities at the Emergency Department A cross-sectional study SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/223936 T3 - A1 - Sturesson, L.; Lindstrom, V.; Castren, M.; Niemi-Murola, L.; Falk, A. -C. A2 - PB - Y1 - 2016 LA - eng AB - Background: Pain is one of the most common symptoms in the Emergency Department (ED) and is the cause of more than half of the visits to the ED. Several attempts to improve pain management have been done by using, for example, standards/guidelines and education. To our knowledge no one has investigated if and how different actions over a longitudinal period affect the frequency of pain documentation in the ED. Therefore the aim of this study was to describe the frequency of documented pain asses... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - Emergency care; Acute pain; Pain management; Pain assessments; Guidelines; Evidence based care; Documentation; MANAGEMENT; OLIGOANALGESIA; INTERVENTIONS; ANALGESIA; FRACTURES; MEDICINE; AUDIT; TIME; CARE; 3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology N1 - PP - ER -