How to take the pain out of hospitalization.
The patients at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore had a problem: No one was asking about their pain. When they filled out their patient satisfaction surveys, they let administration know that this was an area where they were less than satisfied with their care. So two years ago, the hospital hired a pain management coordinator to develop a program from scratch.
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