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Determining Pain Detection and Tolerance Thresholds Using an Integrated, Multi-Modal Pain Task Battery
Published on: April 14, 2016
Quality control in management of pain
W S Tuil1, A J ten Hoopen, E J van der Haring
1UMC Nijmegen, Department of Medical Informatics, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Since 1987 several pain clinics in The Netherlands have started with some kind of computer-assisted recording of data, mainly for purposes of quality control. However, this has not yet led to routinely generated reports about the quality of these clinics because a consensus on how to assess quality in pain-treatment is missing. Using classical system-development methods a global specification for an information system for quality assessment was defined on which a prototype application was based. Various changes were adopted into this prototype, which ultimately resulted in explicit requirements stating: 1. Which data to record, 2. What organisational prerequisites to fulfil for such a system, 3. The user-interface, and 4. Interactions with other information systems. The final application was implemented in a number of pain clinics where its usefulness in quality control is currently assessed.
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