Improvement of Postoperative Pain Control Processes and Outcomes in Veterans of a Surgical Intensive Care Unit

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• 作者：Melissa S. D’Andrea ; P. Marco Fisichella
• 刊名：World Journal of Surgery
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：41
• 期：2
• 页码：419-422
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Surgery; Abdominal Surgery; Cardiac Surgery; General Surgery; Thoracic Surgery; Vascular Surgery;
• 出版者：Springer International Publishing
• ISSN：1432-2323
• 卷排序：41

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BackgroundPostoperative pain remains undertreated in critically ill patients. We hypothesized that the adequacy of pain control in our Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) was above the reported average of 71 % in the literature and that the introduction of the critical care pain observation tool (CPOT) could improve it. We used a Lean Six Sigma methodology to improve our processes and quantify our improvement.