Pain Management

11/01/2020 - "Caregiver-facilitated pain management interventions improved pain outcomes in most adult studies; however, the number of studies of adults is small warranting caution pending further studies."
01/01/2015 - "At two weeks, caregivers in the intervention group reported better knowledge about pain management (P = 0.001), fewer concerns about pain and pain medications (P = 0.008), and lower patient pain over the past week (P = 0.014) and trended toward improvement in most other areas under study. "
12/01/2017 - "Participants reported moderate and severe worst pain in the last 24 hours; 38% were undertreated for pain according to the Pain Management Index; and 75% reported nonpharmacologic strategies including family support, prayer, and position change as highly effective in managing pain. "
01/01/2017 - "The Pain Assessment Screening Tool and Outcomes Registry (PASTOR) was developed to assess and track biopsychosocial aspects of pain management and to identify best treatment practices. "
09/01/2013 - "Pain management interventions will be most effective when pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments are individualized after exploring the various contributors to pain and suffering, and the patient and family are educated and involved in decision making. "

12/01/2021 - "The findings suggest that smartphone-based pain management program, which is a highly accessible and cost-effective intervention, may provide benefits similar to a face-to-face intervention and shows promise for being effective on emotional, social, and school dimensions of quality of life in adolescents with different types of chronic pain. "
01/01/2019 - "Interdisciplinary multimodal pain management is effective in helping chronic pain patients lessen symptoms and reclaim functionality, but most patients lack access to such treatments. "
12/01/2017 - "These data support the more widespread use of non-pharmacological pain management, most notably in patients with chronic pain inadequately relieved by medications alone."
03/01/1997 - "In this review the most commonly used assessment instruments and patterns of age differences in the experience of chronic pain are described and evidence for the efficacy of psychological pain management strategies for this group is reviewed."
09/01/1995 - "Chronic pain is best treated through a multidisciplinary approach, with best results achieved by programs specialized in pain management. "

07/01/2017 - "Understanding the unique needs of older patients with cancer is important to safe and effective pain management. "
08/01/2014 - "Optimal pain management has been shown to improve the quality of life of cancer patients, and that is also true for cancer survivors. "
10/01/2017 - "The GPM program has instituted a consistent and high standard of care for pain management at cancer wards and improved the quality of life for patients with cancer."
07/04/2023 - "Identifying PSS of terminal cancer patients leads to early interventions that are more effective in improving pain management of palliative care."
11/01/2007 - "Future research should explore how access to CAM can be improved for poor and uninsured patients with cancer and how alternative approaches to pain management can be integrated more broadly in the U.S. "

03/01/2007 - "Despite enormous technologic advances and substantial research in the area of pain management in recent years, numerous studies indicate that postoperative pain is not relieved in most patients. "
01/01/2016 - "Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia was related to improved survival, less complications and chronic post-surgical pain after major abdominal surgery, reiterating the important role of pain management for the prognosis of patients who underwent surgery."
01/01/2012 - "Although many advances have been made in the field of pain management, particularly during the past decades, not all patients achieve complete relief from postoperative pain. "
02/01/2010 - "The aim of this study was to examine whether depression is a strong predictor of elevated postoperative pain levels following orthopedic surgery and whether the implementation of standardized pain management is more beneficial for patients with depression. "
11/01/2023 - "Identifying patients at high risk of acute postoperative pain after total knee or hip arthroplasty (TKA/THA) will facilitate individualized pain management and research on the efficacy of treatment options. "

01/01/2021 - "Cancer pain prevalence is high despite well-established international guidelines on pain management and improved accessibility to treatment. "
12/10/2018 - "In this review, we explore the possible reasons for the ongoing high prevalence of cancer pain and discuss possible future directions for improvement in personalised pain management. "
08/01/2012 - "Though majority of patients with cancer pain can be effectively treated with conventional medical management, still a significant portion of patients required some form of interventional pain management techniques. "
09/01/1996 - "Peripheral nerve catheterization proved beneficial in two patients who presented with difficult pain management problems and should be more widely considered for the relief of severe cancer-related pain in both the upper and lower limbs."
01/01/2023 - "Through alleviating stigma, patients may be better able to make decisions regarding their pain management which lead to freedom from cancer-related pain and improved QoL."