Acute pain management focuses on how well postoperative pain is truly controlled, not just how much medicine is prescribed. The team developed a program that focuses on pain management that patients actually need, helping care better match real acute pain needs.
Pain Stewardship
Acute Pain Management
We help you manage your pain by checking how well your pain is controlled and using a combination of treatments that work together.
Acute Pain Management
Studying different types of treatment for postoperative orthopaedic pain
Our program includes a combination of therapies for patients after orthopaedic procedures. Through research, we evaluated a combination of post-operative therapies affected pain management, highlighting differences between prescribing patterns, what patients actually needed for pain control and the quality of pain relief patients experienced.
Authoring Breakthroughs
Evaluating quality of acute postoperative pain control
Our Unique Approach
Pain stewardship impact
Advancing safer pain management and opioid stewardship across UC Health.
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Program founded to improve pain management and opioid safety
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Mission to improve pain management and reduce opioid-related adverse events
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Pharmacist leaders with advanced pharmacotherapy training
Focus
On serving patients within UC Health and the Greater Cincinnati community
Featured Benefit
Research on multimodal order sets for postoperative pain
The program contributed to the development and evaluation of a multimodal therapy order set for patients after orthopaedic procedures. This research project led to using several pain treatments together and highlighted differences between standard prescribing patterns and what patients actually needed for pain control.
Featured Benefit
Aligning prescribing with real acute pain needs
Acute pain work at UC Health includes comparing prescribed pain regimens with patient-reported pain relief. By looking at both prescribing patterns and the quality of pain control patients experienced, the team can bring opioid prescribing in line with real acute pain needs, supporting safer care without losing needed pain relief.
