title: Treating acute pain in the hospitalized patient.
abstract: Many hospitalized patients report moderate-to-severe pain despite the use of epidural or patient-controlled analgesia. This article will explore the use of multimodal options for analgesia in hospitalized patients and focus on a difficult-to-treat acute pain condition, abdominal pain.
authors: Suburban Hospital-Johns Hopkins Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors: Yvonne
authors: Y
authors: DʼArcy
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000451:nursing; D059787:Acute Pain / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing*; D000328:Adult; D000698:Analgesia / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D010147:Pain Measurement; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015995:Prevalence