Acute Pain Patient Records from a Ghanaian Emergency Department

A collection of information on 378 patients presenting with acute pain at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Emergency Department in Ghana. It includes measurements of pain severity using the Numeric Rating Scale, waiting times for initial assessment and analgesia administration, and patient satisfaction scores. The data was collected to assess pain management practices.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between patient-reported pain severity (Numeric Rating Scale) and waiting time for analgesia administration.
• Model predictors of a Door-to-Analgesia time ≤ 90 minutes using patient education level as a feature.
• Assess patient satisfaction with pain management services relative to pre- and post-treatment pain scores.
• Calculate the prevalence of severe, moderate, and mild acute pain among the 378 emergency department patients.

Strengths

• Data is based on a specific cohort of 378 patients from a single hospital study.
• Includes detailed temporal metrics such as average waiting times for initial assessment (83.97 minutes) and analgesia (184.07 minutes).
• Pain severity is quantified using the standardized Numeric Rating Scale (NRS).

Limitations

• Small sample size of 378 patients limits generalizability of findings.
• Data is from a single hospital in Ghana, which may not represent practices in other regions or countries.
• The dataset is small at 98.1 KB, indicating limited scope and number of variables.

Provenance

Source

Kwabena Antwi-Donkor via figshare.

Collection Method

Data collected from patients presenting to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Emergency Department using the Numeric Rating Scale.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-03-20.

Geography

Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana.