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Despite the remarkable amount of research and development looking to advance the treatment options for the human experience of pain, evidence is mounting that pain continues to be poorly managed in health care (reference needed). There is a lack of coordination and clinical integration of evidence-based practice in delivering effective pain management to the bedside by health care professionals, resulting in unnecessary physical, psychological, and emotional negative consequences to patients (Czarnecki ML, Turner HN, Collins PM, Doellman D, Wrona S, Reynolds J. Pain Manag Nurs. 2011;12(2):95–111). Regulatory agencies, such as the Joint Commission, and oversight agencies, such as the World Health Organization, have unanimously declared that appropriate pain management is an essential part of excellence in patient care (Apfelbaum JL, Chen C, Mehta S, Gan T. Anesth Analg. 2003;97(2):234–540). In this chapter, we highlight the challenges in defining what is “high quality” in pain management and call out many of the challenges in safely treating acute pain in the peri-operative hospital setting.
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Guttman, O., Shilling, M., Murali, A., Mendelson, A.M. (2020). Quality and Safety in Acute Pain Management. In: Noe, C. (eds) Pain Management for Clinicians. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39982-5_30
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