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- 2019
Bundling Interventions to Enhance Pain Care Quality (BITE Pain) in Medical Surgical PatientsDOI: 10.31486/toj.18.0164 Keywords: Acute pain, animal assisted therapy, aromatherapy, implementation science, interprofessional relations, music therapy, pain–postoperative, pain management, pain measurement, quality indicators–health care, quality of health care, surveys and questionnaires Abstract: Background: Inadequate pain management and undertreatment remain a serious clinical issue among hospitalized adults, contributing to chronic pain syndromes and opioid dependency. Implementation of individual pain care interventions has been insufficient to improve pain care quality. The purpose of this interprofessional, patient-centered project was to implement a 6-component bundle of evidence-based pain management strategies to improve patients’ perception of pain care quality and 24-hour pain experience outcomes
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