Postoperative Pain Management Among Dominican and American Health-Care Providers
| Autor: | Jeffrey N. Katz, Christopher A. Devine, Amy Yu, Aileen M. Davis, Laura M. Bogart, Thomas S. Thornhill, Roya Ghazinouri, Luis Alcantara Abreu, Rachel G. Kasdin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
medicine.medical_specialty Clinical Decision-Making MEDLINE Developing country Paternalism 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health care Humans Pain Management Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Practice Patterns Physicians' 030203 arthritis & rheumatology Pain Postoperative Physician-Patient Relations business.industry Dominican Republic General Medicine Moderation Cross-cultural studies United States Analgesics Opioid Family medicine Orthopedic surgery Physical therapy Surgery business Developed country |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 98:e50 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1386 0021-9355 |
| DOI: | 10.2106/jbjs.15.01004 |
| Popis: | Background: U.S. practitioners have prescribed opioid analgesics increasingly in recent years, contributing to what has been declared an opioid epidemic by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Opioids are used frequently in the preoperative and postoperative periods for patients undergoing total joint replacement in developed countries, but cross-cultural comparisons of this practice are limited. An international medical mission such as Operation Walk Boston, which provides total joint replacement to financially vulnerable patients in the Dominican Republic, offers a unique opportunity to compare postoperative pain management approaches in a developed nation and a developing nation. Methods: We interviewed American and Dominican surgeons and nurses (n = 22) during Operation Walk Boston 2015. We used a moderator’s guide with open-ended questions to inquire about postoperative pain management and factors influencing prescribing practices. Interviews were recorded and transcripts were analyzed using content analysis. Results: Providers highlighted differences in the patient-provider relationship, pain medication prescribing variability, and access to medications. Dominican surgeons emphasized adherence to standardized pain protocols and employed a paternalistic model of care, and American surgeons reported prescribing variability and described shared decision-making with patients. Dominican providers described limited availability of potent opioid preparations in the Dominican Republic, in contrast to American providers, who discussed opioid accessibility in the United States. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that cross-cultural comparisons provide insight into how opioid prescribing practices, approaches to the patient-provider relationship, and medication access inform distinct pain management strategies in American and Dominican surgical settings. Integrating lessons from cross-cultural pain management studies may yield more effective pain management strategies for surgical procedures performed in the United States and abroad. |
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