[Patient-reported outcomes and quality of care in specialized palliative home care: a nationwide, prospective longitudinal cohort trial].

Introduction: Since 2007, patients receiving palliative care have been entitled to specialised outpatient palliative care (SAPV). Until now, the quality of care of the SAPV was only regionally focussed or in relation to individual SAPV teams. A nationwide analysis of outcome quality is still awaited.

Peripartal pain perception and pain therapy: introduction and validation of a questionnaire as a quality instrument.

Background: Labor pain is difficult to measure. The aim of this proof-of-concept study is to implement and test a questionnaire assessing pain sensation during and after vaginal deliveries. Its key aspect is a highly standardized survey of patient-reported outcome (PRO) by staff not involved in routine care.

PAIN OUT: the making of an international acute pain registry.

Background: About 240 million patients undergo surgery every year, worldwide. Roughly 50% of these patients report clinically significant pain. Numerous barriers impede provision of adequate management.

PAIN OUT: an international acute pain registry supporting clinicians in decision making and in quality improvement activities.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: Management of post-operative pain is unsatisfactory worldwide. An estimated 240 million patients undergo surgery each year. Forty to 60% of these patients report clinically significant pain.

Correlates of satisfaction with pain treatment in the acute postoperative period: results from the international PAIN OUT registry.

Patient ratings of satisfaction with their postoperative pain treatment tend to be high even in those with substantial pain. Determinants are poorly understood and have not previously been studied in large-scale, international datasets. PAIN OUT, a European Union-funded acute pain registry and research project, collects patient-reported outcome data on postoperative day 1 using the self-reported International Pain Outcome Questionnaire (IPO), and patient, clinical, and treatment characteristics.