Background: The field of pain medicine was established as an obligatory subject area of medical schools in Germany in 2016. No prior study has evaluated the effects of this curricular change on students' competences in the field of pain medicine.
Objective: The aim of this study was to find out to what extent the introduction of the additional subject "pain medicine" positively influenced the students' acquisition of competences measured via a self-assessment.
Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther
September 2010
Outcome-focussed benchmarking has been shown to be a successful tool in adult quality improvement of postoperative pain management in adults. We report on feasibility and first results of a similar project in operated children (quality improvement of postoperative pain management in infants, QUIPSI). Our results show that outcomes in postoperative pain management can be measured and compared in routine clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Acute postoperative pain management is still far from satisfactory despite the availability of high-quality guidelines and advanced pain management techniques.
Methods: An outcome-oriented project called QUIPS (Quality Improvement in Postoperative Pain Management) was developed, consisting of standardized data acquisition and an analysis of quality and process indicators.
Results: After validation of the questionnaire, a total of 12 389 data sets were collected from 30 departments in six participating hospitals.