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  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine
  • Pain Management
  • Quality Improvement

Background:

  • Long bone fractures are a frequent cause of severe pain in pediatric emergency departments.
  • Timely administration of analgesics is critical for effective pain management in children.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To decrease the median time to the first analgesic dose for long bone fracture pain in a pediatric emergency department to 36 minutes or less.
  • To implement and evaluate a series of quality improvement initiatives.

Main Methods:

  • Four initiatives were implemented using "plan, do, study, act" cycles.
  • Interventions included staff education on triage, in-room triage, quality goal communication, and addressing barriers to care.
  • Data on time to analgesic delivery was collected and analyzed.

Main Results:

  • The median time to analgesic delivery decreased from 72 minutes to 33.5 minutes between April and July 2015.
  • Following interventions, the average monthly median time to analgesia was 48.5 minutes, compared to 66.3 minutes in the prior year.
  • These results demonstrate a significant reduction in pain management delays.

Conclusions:

  • A multi-faceted quality improvement approach effectively reduced analgesic delivery times for pediatric long bone fractures.
  • The implemented initiatives successfully improved the timeliness of pain management in the pediatric emergency department.