Adult Emergency Department Patients With Sickle Cell Pain Crisis: Results From a Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative Model to Improve Analgesic Management

Abstract

While the use of a learning collaborative and implementation of nurse-initiated analgesic protocols was not associated with improvement in time to administration of the initial analgesic, improvements in the decrease in the arrival to discharge pain score and increased use of hydromorphone and the SC route were noted in adults with SCD in the ED.