A prospective follow-up study on the role of clinical pharmacists in sustainably optimized pain measurement and pain therapy consequences.

Appropriate analgesic therapy requires adequate pain measurement. A few studies have already demonstrated benefits of clinical pharmacists supporting physicians' prescribing. Nevertheless, there are still open questions about pharmaceutical interventions at the nursing level in order to optimise pain therapy sustainably.

Standardising analgesic administration for nurses: a prospective intervention study.

Background Uncontrolled pain reduces quality of life, delays recovery from surgery and can potentially contribute to the development of chronic pain. Strategies to improve pain management are desirable in view of these detrimental outcomes, yet frequently they are predominately medically based despite nurses playing key roles in pain assessment and analgesic administration. Objective To develop an algorithm-based guidance addressing nurses' pain assessment and analgesic administration and investigating its impact on quality of pain management.