title: Improving ambulatory surgical pain management.
abstract: A surgical pain improvement team used an improvement model to standardize pain management at two hospital-based ambulatory surgery facilities.
authors.affiliation: Quality Support Services, Centra Health, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA. Kimberley.Woodley@centrahealth.com
authors.forename: Kimberly S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Woodley
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000592:standards*; D004282:Documentation; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000592:standards; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000451:nursing; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010358:Patient Participation; D013531:Surgicenters / Q000592:standards*; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*; D014768:Virginia