Grants and Funded Projects

Evidence-Based Practice: Acute Pain Management in the Elderly

Study Aims

The specific aims of this experimental, three-year project are:

• Aim 1: To test the effect on nurse and physician behavior of an intervention designed to promote adoption of an evidence-based guideline for acute pain management in the elderly.
• Aim 2: To test the effect of an intervention designed to promote adoption in practice of evidence based guidelines on decreasing barriers to use of those guidelines in practice.
• Aim 3: To determine the cost-effectiveness ratios of an intervention designed to promote adoption in practice of an evidence-based guideline for acute pain management in the elderly

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