title: [Quality assurance in postoperative pain treatment].
abstract: One hundred and ninety-one patients were interviewed before and after surgery about their attitude toward and the quality of received pain relief. The nurses working in the same surgical units answered a questionnaire covering attitudes to postoperative pain and pain treatment. Forty-seven percent of the patients were in pain at the time of the postsurgical interview, 10% had not any analgesic prescribed at all, and 15% had received less than prescribed. Fifty-one nurses (71% of the total nursing staff) answered the questionnaire. Of these, 63% were sometimes in doubt about the physicians' prescriptions, 55% would occasionally refuse to give analgesics for various reasons, and 37% were not satisfied with the routines of pain control in their ward. Knowledge of pain treatment and communication between surgeons, anaesthesiologists, nurses and patients must be improved to make postsurgical pain relief adequate.
authors.affiliation: Anaestesiafdelingen, Centralsygehuset i Nykøbing Falster.
authors.forename: I U
authors.initials: IU
authors.lastname: Juhl
authors.forename: B V
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Christensen
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Bülow
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wilbek
authors.forename: N C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Dreijer
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Egelund
mesh_terms: D000700:Analgesics / Q000008:administration & dosage; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D000700:Analgesics
vernacular_title: Kvalitetsvurdering af postoperativ smertebehandling.