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Revised American Pain Society Patient Outcome Questionnaire (APS-POQ-R) for quality improvement of pain management in hospitalized adults: preliminary psychometric evaluationDebra B Gordon
Department of Nursing Practice Innovations, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin 53792, USA
J Pain 11:1172-86. 2010..Validation in additional groups of patients will be needed to demonstrate its generalizability...
Nurses' opinions on appropriate administration of PRN range opioid analgesic orders for acute painDebra B Gordon
Hospital and Clinics, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53792, USA
Pain Manag Nurs 9:131-40. 2008..Consideration of opioid pharmacokinetics can provide logic to develop a new paradigm where range orders are replaced with orders that provide more explicit instructions to titrate an opioid to the most effective dose...
Improving reassessment and documentation of pain managementDebra B Gordon
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:509-17. 2008....
The use of 'as-needed' range orders for opioid analgesics in the management of acute pain: a consensus statement of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing and the American Pain SocietyDebra B Gordon
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI 53792, USA
Home Healthc Nurse 23:388-96; quiz 397-8. 2005..This paper presents the consensus statement of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing and the American Pain Society on the use of "as-needed" range orders for opioid analgesics in the management of acute pain...
Comparison of perioperative oral multimodal analgesia versus IV PCA for spine surgerySharad Rajpal
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI 5379, USA
J Spinal Disord Tech 23:139-45. 2010..A preintervention and postintervention design was used to examine a total of 200 patients...
American pain society recommendations for improving the quality of acute and cancer pain management: American Pain Society Quality of Care Task ForceDebra B Gordon
Department of Nursing, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison 53792, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:1574-80. 2005..The American Pain Society (APS) set out to revise and expand its 1995 Quality Improvement Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Pain and Cancer Pain and to facilitate improvements in the quality of pain management in all care settings...
Pharmacologic management of neuropathic painDebra B Gordon
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, 600 Highland Avenue, F6 121 1535, Madison, WI 53792, USA
Pain Manag Nurs 5:19-33. 2004..Clinically, drug treatment of neuropathic pain is often a matter of treatment trials. This article presents a summary of available clinical information on first-line and lesser-known treatments for neuropathic pain...
Prospective analysis of a novel long-acting oral opioid analgesic regimen for pain control after total hip and knee arthroplastyRichard L Illgen
Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53792, USA
J Arthroplasty 21:814-20. 2006..05) than the IV PCA group. Both groups had similar pain scores and incidence of opioid side effects. This study demonstrates some significant advantages of an oral analgesic regimen compared with IV PCA after TKA and THA...
The use of "as-needed" range orders for opioid analgesics in the management of acute pain: a consensus statement of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing and the American Pain SocietyDebra B Gordon
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI 53792, USA
Pain Manag Nurs 5:53-8. 2004..The implementation of this statement should promote quality pain management through safe medication practices and the appropriate use of range orders for opioid analgesics in acute pain management...
Use of nonpharmacologic interventions for pain and anxiety after total hip and total knee arthroplastyTeresa A Pellino
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI, USA
Orthop Nurs 24:182-90; quiz 191-2. 2005..The influence of coping strategies in acute postoperative pain needs to be examined further...
Functional implications of long-term pain following outpatient inguinal herniorrhaphy--a prospective evaluationAndrew J Russ
Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin 53792, USA
J Surg Res 169:25-30. 2011..The purpose of the present study is to assess pain and functional outcomes at 1 y following inguinal herniorrhaphy in which patients were randomized to receive a continuous wound infusion of bupivacaine to receiving a saline infusion...
Incidence and characteristics of naloxone use in postoperative pain management: a critical examination of naloxone use as a potential quality measureDebra B Gordon
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792, USA
Pain Manag Nurs 6:30-6. 2005..However, caution is warranted when using naloxone as a quality measure to avoid the implication that higher use indicates opioid analgesic over-treatment or error...
Oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate for cancer breakthrough pain: a reviewDebra B Gordon
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, USA
Oncol Nurs Forum 33:257-64. 2006..To review the dose titration, efficacy, and safety of oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate (OTFC)...
The WPI's review of Wisconsin's managed care climate for pain management: opportunities for improvementTeresa A Pellino
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinies, Madison 53792, USA
WMJ 105:27-31, 50. 2006..The economics of pain management needs to be made more "visible" through the development of coding and tracking mechanisms...
A 10-year review of quality improvement monitoring in pain management: recommendations for standardized outcome measuresDebra B Gordon
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, 600 Highland Avenue, F6/121-1535, Madison, WI 53792, USA
Pain Manag Nurs 3:116-30. 2002..Although there are no perfect measures of quality, longitudinal data support the validity of a core set of indicators that could be used to obtain benchmark data for quality improvement in pain management in the hospital setting...
Continuous local anesthetic infusion for pain management after outpatient inguinal herniorrhaphyMichael J Schurr
Department of Surgery, University of Winsconsin Hospital, Madison, 53792, USA
Surgery 136:761-9. 2004..However, these effects are limited to the first postoperative day only. The additional costs associated with this intervention may limit its widespread use in clinical practice...
Nonopioid and adjuvant analgesics in chronic pain management: strategies for effective useDebra B Gordon
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, 600 Highland Avenue, F6 121 1535, Madison, WI 53792, USA
Nurs Clin North Am 38:447-64, vi. 2003....
Sublingual morphine #53Debra B Gordon
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53792, USA
J Palliat Med 8:868-9. 2005
Acute post-surgical pain management: a critical appraisal of current practice, December 2-4, 2005James P Rathmell
University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT 05403, USA
Reg Anesth Pain Med 31:1-42. 2006..This manuscript details those opinions and presents a critical analysis of the existing evidence supporting new and emerging techniques used to control postsurgical pain...
Quality improvement challenges in pain managementDebra B Gordon
Pain 107:1-4. 2004
