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C Barber

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A prospective blinded study on emergency pain assessment and therapy.

A prospective blinded observational study was carried out to document acute pain assessment and management in an academic emergency department. Over a 2-month period, 42 patients with a primary complaint of pain were studied. Physicians and nurses did not document levels of pain or changes in pain during patient stays. Eleven of 42 patients had severe pain upon arrival, 5 of whom received medications, only 1 obtaining good relief. No other patient received medication, although five others received some intervention for their pain. Eleven of 38 patients who were discharged home had severe pain on discharge. Despite minimal pain relief, patient satisfaction with pain management was relatively high. Pain assessment and treatment may be poorer than previous retrospective studies have indicated.

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Depression in the workplace: effects on short-term disability.

We analyzed data from two national surveys to estimate the short-term work disability associated with thirty-day major depression. Depressed workers were found to have between 1.5 and 3.2 more short-term work-disability days in a thirty-day period than other workers had, with a salary-equivalent productivity loss averaging between $182 and $395. These workplace costs are nearly as large as the direct costs of successful depression treatment, which suggests that encouraging depressed workers to obtain treatment might be cost-effective for some employers.

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