Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 149-159, March 2007

PROSPECT: evidence-based, procedure-specific postoperative pain management

  • Henrik Kehlet, MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +45 3545 4074; Fax: +45 3545 6543.
  • on behalf of the PROSPECT Working Group

Section for Surgical Pathophysiology, Section 4074, The Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

Choice Medical Communications, Hitchin, Herts, UK

Department of Anaesthesia, Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, UK

Department of Anesthesiology, Flemish Free University of Brussels Medical Center, Brussels, Belgium

Existing general guidelines for perioperative pain management do not consider procedure-specific differences in analgesic efficacy or applicability of a given analgesic technique. For the clinician, an evidence-based, procedure-specific guideline for perioperative pain management is therefore desirable. This chapter reviews the methodology and results of PROSPECT: a public web site (www.postoppain.org) which provides information and recommendations for evidence-based procedure-specific postoperative pain management.

Key words: postoperative pain, evidence-based medicine, clinical decision support systems

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PII: S1521-6896(06)00082-6

doi:10.1016/j.bpa.2006.12.001

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 149-159, March 2007

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