Pain Research and Management (Jan 2005)

Pain in the Emergency Department with One-Week Follow-Up of Pain Resolution

  • C Celeste Johnston,
  • Anita J Gagnon,
  • Carolyn J Pepler,
  • Patricia Bourgault

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2005/781916
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2
pp. 67 – 70

Abstract

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OBJECTIVES: To determine the intensity of pain in the emergency department (ED), the use of analgesics in relation to pain intensity, which patients are at risk for unresolved pain at one week post-discharge, and the postdischarge treatment of pain.