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Pain Evaluation and Treatment in the Emergency Department

NCT02980172 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 31942

Last updated 2017-07-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

All patients admitted in Geneva University Hospitals (GUH) emergency department (ED) are triaged using the Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS), a 4-level symptom-based triage scale. At the end of the triage process the triage nurse has to choose an emergency level and a main presenting complaint among a listing of 98 presenting complaints. The SETS recommends a pain evaluation for 44 out of the SETS 98 presenting complaint.

The primary objective of the study is to determine whether pain is correctly evaluated when required by the SETS criteria. The secondary objectives are (1) to evaluate whether an appropriate treatment is delivered when pain is present, and (2) to identify predictors of pain evaluation and treatment.

Conditions

  • Pain, Acute
  • Emergencies

Interventions

OTHER

Pain evaluation

Evaluation of pain using a numerical scale (1 to 10)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Geneva

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Olivier T Rutschmann, MD, MPH · University Hospital, Geneva

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-11-30
Primary Completion
2017-06-30
Completion
2017-06-30

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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