title: Pain management. A patient's perspective.
abstract: Improving pain management practices can decrease adverse complications and improve patient outcomes. This in turn will result in the more efficient use of health care resources. Clinicians who are constantly challenged to improve delivery of care are interested in the perceptions of patients. They often rely on their patients' reported levels of satisfaction as an outcome measure for success of a program. Most often, informal methods are used to gather information on satisfaction with care.
authors.affiliation: Acute Pain Service, Peter Lougheed Centre, Calgary General Hospital, Calgary, Alberta.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lamb
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D010146:Pain / Q000451:nursing*; D059408:Pain Management; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires