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Impact of a pilot team on patients' pain reduction and satisfaction in an emergency department: A before-and-after observational study.

Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique

April 2016

Public health unit: risk management and quality of care, Paris Centre University Hospital Group, AP-HP, 27, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France; Department of public health, faculty of medicine, Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75006 Paris, France; Research unit (Inserm U1153) methods team, methods of therapeutic evaluation of chronic diseases, research center epidemiology and biostatistics, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75004 Paris, France. Electronic address:

Background: Pain management and patient satisfaction were targeted in the emergency department of a Paris university hospital. In 1999, 77.0% of patients complained of pain on arrival and more than half of patients did not experience pain relief at discharge.

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Background & Aims: Equality of access to organ transplantation is a mandatory public health requirement. Referral from a local to a university hospital and then registration on the national waiting list are the two key steps enabling access to liver transplantation (LT). Although the latter procedure is well defined using the Model for End-stage Liver Disease score that improves equality of access, the former is mostly reliant on the practices of referring physicians.

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