Effect of personalised, mobile-accessible discharge instructions for patients leaving the emergency department: A randomised controlled trial.

Objective: This pilot study assessed the efficacy of personalised, printed and mobile-accessible discharge instructions for pain relief for patients discharged from the ED.

Methods: Patients presenting with pain caused by acute musculoskeletal or visceral complaints not requiring admission were eligible. Both groups received usual pain relief discharge advice, the intervention group received additional personalised printed and mobile-accessible discharge instructions.

Non-traumatic musculoskeletal pain in Western Australian hospital emergency departments: A clinical audit of the prevalence, management practices and evidence-to-practice gaps.

Objectives: Musculoskeletal pain (MSP) conditions are a leading cause of morbidity worldwide and a common reason for ED presentation. Little is currently known about non-traumatic MSP (NTMSP) presenting to EDs. The present study described the prevalence and management practices of NTMSP in EDs.