Data from multihospital study show low compliance with pain management protocols.
Taking pains to follow clinical guidelines. Years after the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research developed clinical practice guidelines for post-surgical pain management, data collected from acute care hospitals in Wisconsin indicate low compliance with the recommendations.
D003625:Data Collection; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; D014922:Wisconsin