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Institutional approaches to pain assessment & management
This 2003 systematic review was commissioned prior to the commencement of the NICS pain management Project and seeks to identify strategies that have been successful in introducing and sustaining institutional strategies to pain assessment and management.
What the review found
Attempts have been made at a hospital wide and at a clinical service level to address pain management. Many studies have provided generally low level evidence that, despite attempts to instigate greater awareness of pain in healthcare institutions patient pain is often unrelieved.
This systematic review was commissioned prior to the commencement of the NICS pain management program and sought to identify strategies that have been successful in introducing and sustaining
Note - this review is over three years old and is no longer considered current by NICS.
