Impact of a Persistent Pelvic Pain Clinic: Emergency attendances following multidisciplinary management of persistent pelvic pain
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Erin Wilson; Jayne Berryman; Michael Wynn-Williams; Rachel Wilkinson; Albert Jung
- Source
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Endometriosis
Pelvic Pain
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030202 anesthesiology
Multidisciplinary approach
Humans
Medicine
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
business.industry
Pelvic pain
Attendance
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Psychological distress
General Medicine
Emergency department
medicine.disease
humanities
Short stay
Emergency medicine
Pain Clinics
Female
Queensland
medicine.symptom
Presentation (obstetrics)
Emergency Service, Hospital
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1479-828X
0004-8666
Persistent pelvic pain (PPP) is an important cause of psychological distress and productivity loss in women. In 2017, a multidisciplinary clinic was established to care for Queensland women with PPP. By analysing clinic and emergency department data, we found 19% fewer patients required any presentation to the emergency department for exacerbations of pelvic pain (P = 0.003) within 12 months of clinic attendance. There was also a reduction in number of presentations, short stay admissions and daily opiate use in regular users. The Persistent Pelvic Pain Clinic (PPPC) made a difference to these women and reduced resource burden on a busy emergency department.