• Pain Med · Jan 2017

    Multicenter Study

    A Multicenter Evaluation of Emergency Department Pain Care Across Different Types of Fractures.

    • Ammar Siddiqui, Laura Belland, Laura Rivera-Reyes, Daniel Handel, Kabir Yadav, Kennon Heard, Amanda Eisenberg, Yury Khelemsky, and Ula Hwang.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
    • Pain Med. 2017 Jan 1; 18 (1): 41-48.

    ObjectivesTo identify differences in emergency department (ED) pain-care based on the type of fracture sustained and to examine whether fracture type may influence the more aggressive analgesic use previously demonstrated in older patients.DesignSecondary analysis of retrospective cohort study.SettingFive EDs (four academic, one community) in the United States.ParticipantsPatients (1,664) who presented in January, March, July, and October 2009 with a final diagnosis of fracture (774 long bone [LBF], 890 shorter bone [SBF]).MeasurementsPrimary-predictor was type of fracture (LBF vs. SBF). Pain-care process outcomes included likelihood of analgesic administration, opioid-dose, and time to first analgesic. General estimating equations were used to control for age, gender, race, baseline pain score, triage acuity, comorbidities and ED crowding. Subgroup analyses were conducted to analyze age-based differences in pain care by fracture type.ResultsA larger proportion of patients with LBF (30%) were older (>65 years old) compared to SBF (13%). Compared with SBF, patients with LBF were associated with greater likelihood of analgesic-administration (OR = 2.03; 95 CI = 1.58 to 2.62; P  < 0.001) and higher opioid-doses (parameter estimate = 0.268; 95 CI = 0.239 to 0.297; P  < 0.001). When LBF were examined separately, older-patients had a trend to longer analgesic wait-times (99 [55-163] vs. 76 [35-149] minutes, P  = 0.057), but no other differences in process outcomes were found.ConclusionLong bone fractures were associated with more aggressive pain care than SBF. When fracture types were examined separately, older patients did not appear to receive more aggressive pain care. This difference should be accounted for in further research.

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