Disparities in Emergency Department Pain Treatment for Toothache

Optimizing the Treatment of Acute Pain in the Emergency Department.

Physician credentialing is the process of gathering information in regard to a physician’s qualifications for appointment to the medical staff, whereas delineation of clinical privileges denotes those specific services and procedures that a physician is deemed qualified to provide or perform. The specific processes for physician credentialing and delineation of clinical privileges must be defin...

The emergency department evaluation, management, and treatment of back pain.

Back pain is one of the most common symptom-related complaints for visits to primary care physicians and is the most common musculoskeletal complaint that results in visits to the emergency department (ED). With recent national health care initiatives moving toward universal coverage, an increasing number of patients with common complaints such as back pain will visit the ED. The first goal of ...

Pain management in the emergency department.

Promoting children’s pain alleviation in emergency department

Background Pain is, by nature, a subjective experience influenced by social, psychological, and experiential factors. Nowadays, pain relief is considered an imperative of the pediatric emergency nursing. Analgesia administration influences the entire child’s medical experience and can have a lasting effect on patient and family’s reaction to current and future medical cares [1]. Pain assessment...

Chronic Pain in the Emergency Department.

OBJECTIVE To describe the experiences of emergency department (ED) use among a population of Rhode Island Medicaid patients with chronic pain and a recent history of frequent ED use, who were eligible to participate in the Rhode Island Medicaid Pain Management program. METHODS  Qualitative interviews were conducted with twenty-four patients who were either enrolled, or eligible to be enrolled...