title: Opportunities to improve pain management outcomes in total knee replacements: patient-centered care across the continuum.
abstract: Despite the importance of pain management to each patient's overall experience with a total knee replacement, opportunities to improve pain care exist. The authors target an unnecessarily fragmented pain management trajectory as one cause of variability in pain outcomes. They propose that a technology-enhanced patient-centered pain management continuum running from the preoperative through the recovery phase offers effective and efficient pain management.
authors.affiliation: Joanne G. Samuels, PhD, RN, CNL, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Hewitt Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham. Robert S. Woodward, PhD, Forrest D. McKerley Professor of Health Economics, Departments of Health Management and Policy and of Economics, University of New Hampshire, Durham.
authors.forename: Joanne G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Samuels
authors.forename: Robert S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Woodward
mesh_terms: D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D006801:Humans; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D010343:Patient Admission; D018802:Patient-Centered Care