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Quantifying Pain Location and Intensity with Multimodal Pain Body Diagrams
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[Implementation of a web based software for documentation and control of quality of an acute pain service]
Michael T Pawlik1, Reinhard Abel, Gregor Abt
1Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg. michael.pawlik@klinik.uni-r.de
Abstract:
Providing an acute pain service means accumulation of a large amount of data. The alleviation of data collection, improvement of data quality and data analysis plays a pivotal role. The electronic medical record (EMR) is gaining more and more importance in this context and is continuously spreading in clinical practice. Up to now only a few commercial softwares are available that specifically fit to the needs of an acute pain service. Here we report the development and implementation of such a program (Schmerzvisite, Medlinq, Hamburg, Germany) in the acute pain service of a University Hospital.
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