The research and registry project QUIPS - Quality Improvement in Postoperative Pain Therapy - is a multicenter, interdisciplinary benchmark project that aims at improving acute pain therapy in German hospitals. The aim is to improve the quality of outcomes in postoperative pain therapy through a standardized collection of a few quality indicators, their analysis and feedback to the participating hospitals. Web-based automated feedback enables internal and external benchmarking as well as continuous monitoring of progress. More than 150 hospitals in Germany participate in QUIPS.
Pain Medicine
The research working group led by Prof. Winfried Meissner addresses questions in the field of acute pain. Two multicenter, interdisciplinary research and benchmark projects - QUIPS (Germany) and PAIN OUT (worldwide) - help improving postoperative pain management in more than 200 hospitals. The PAMELA project is about prevention and management of phantom limb pain in Ukraine. Other projects included the IMI-PainCare subproject PROMPT - Providing Standardized Consented PROMs for Improving Pain Treatment - and Pain2020, a project in the Day Clinic for Interdisciplinary Multimodal Pain Management in Chronic Pain.
Projects
QUIPS
PAIN OUT
PAIN OUT - Improvement in postoperative pain outcome - is the international counterpart to the German QUIPS project. Data is being collected in more than 50 hospitals worldwide to improve postoperative pain management and to address a wide range of research questions. The validated PAIN OUT patient questionnaire is available in 20 languages; national PAIN OUT networks have been established in many countries during the last years.
Publications
PAMELA
The PAMELA project is an initiative to prevent and manage phantom limb pain. Our mission is the empowerment of amputees in Ukraine. We aim to help them on their path to enduring pain relief by deploying a therapeutic self-management app for rehabilitation. Simultaneously, for healthcare professionals, we aim to facilitate knowledge and skills transfer by providing evidence-based recommendations and comprehensive teaching materials on the prevention and management of phantom limb pain.
PROMPT (completed)
“Improving the care of patients suffering from acute or chronic pain” was the ambitious goal of the IMI-PAINCARE Consortium. The Consortium of this public-private partnership was composed of 40 participants from 14 countries. One of IMI-PainCare‘s 3 subprojects is PROMPT, which was coordinated by Prof. Meissner. PROMPT aimed at improving management of acute and chronic pain by identifying a core set of PROMs (patient reported outcome measures) that are predictive indicators of treatment success in clinical practice and controlled trials. These do not only address pain intensities as well as the functional consequences of pain for individuals but also identify patients at risk of experiencing chronification of acute post-operative pain. Results help health care professionals to individualize pain management, and thus improve the quality of life of pain patients
Team:
Apl. Prof. Dr. Winfried Meißner (Group Leader)
Winfried.Meiß
phone: 03641 9 32 33 53