• J Pain Symptom Manage · Feb 1990

    Optimizing opioid treatment of postoperative pain.

    • W T Edwards.
    • J Pain Symptom Manage. 1990 Feb 1; 5 (1 Suppl): S24-36.

    AbstractThe problem of undertreatment of acute postoperative pain has been documented in many studies. This article reviews this evidence and defines the problem of undertreatment as a group of attitudes about pain treatment that originate with deficiencies in knowledge and skills and lead to the development of inappropriate behaviors on the part of health care professionals, patients, and health care system administrators. The correction of these attitudinal barriers to appropriate pain management will require education about opioid pharmacology, newer techniques of opioid administration, and the value of appropriate treatment to the individual patients and the health care system as a whole. Emerging Comprehensive Acute Pain Management Services will play a role in this education and in the standardization of postoperative pain treatment.

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