Survey of Postoperative Pain and Pain Management in Norwegian Hospitals

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Postoperative

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01413724

2010/747a

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is a national survey of pain and pain management to surgical patients in Norwegian Hospitals. Data on pain management are gathered from patient records and data on pain and patient satisfaction are gathered as patients' self report.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Surgery previous day

Exclusion criteria

• Declined participation
• Unable to communicate (delirious, sedated, intubated)
• Does not read and speak Norwegian
• Patient not available (for instance having physiotherapy og examinations during data collection)

Trial design

300 participants in 1 patient group

Surgical patients

Description:

PAtients who had surgery the previous day and are still hospitalized