ArticlePaediatric & neonatal pain2022
Existence and perceived application of pain management protocols in German neonatal intensive care units.
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- A multimodal vision dataset for nursing action recognition and quality assessment in NICU.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Existence and perceived application of pain management protocols in German neonatal intensive care units.Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2022Article
- Why Do Nurses Fail to Implement Pain Assessment Instruments for Hospitalized Infants?Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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Abstract
We explored the existence and application of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for pain management (PM) in German neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), and identified the factors associated with their application in practice. This study was part of the Safety4NICU project, a cross-sectional survey conducted from 2015 to 2016. All 224 German NICUs were invited to participate, providing written consent from the head neonatologist and head nurse. We distributed questionnaires to the head neonatologist, the head nurse, and the NICU staff (physicians and nurses). We asked the head neonatologist whether written SOPs for PM existed, and we asked the staff whether these SOPs were applied in their daily routine. We received evaluable responses from 468 physicians and 1251 nurses from 76 NICUs. Of these 76 NICUs, the head neonatologists from 54 NICUs (71.1%) reported that written SOPs for PM exist. However, only 48.5% of the physicians and 53.7% of the nurses declared that these existing SOPs were also applied. We found various predictors for the existing SOPs as being applied, depending on the profession. For physicians, clinical training was important (OR: 2.482,
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