The study conducted by Cleeland, Gonin, Hatfield, et al., included 1,308 patients with previously diagnosed recurrent or metastatic cancer who had undergone surgery more than 30 days from the onset of the study. The patients came from a total of 54 facilities: 12 university cancer centers (267 patients); 12 community-based hospitals and practices (382 patients); and 30 community clinical oncology programs (659 patients).
Group 1 – Patients Patients completed the Brief Pain Inventory at the time of a regular appointment. Patients were asked to rate several types of pain on a scale of 0 to 10. (0 being the “no pain” and 10 being “pain as bad as you can imagine.”)
• the worst pain that they had had in the past week
• the mildest pain they had experienced,
• their …show more content…
Group 2 - Physician
Each patient's physician was asked
• to describe the patient's current treatment for pain,
• to characterize the patient's cancer,
• to determine the patient's ECOG performance status, and
• to attribute the patient's pain to the patient's disease, treatment, or other medical or psychological causes.
• to rate on a scale of 0 to 10 the patient's level of pain control and
• to rate the degree to which pain was interfering with activity and sleep.
Each physician confirmed that they filled out the form without reading the patient's responses to the survey. Percentages were calculated based on the number of patients who answered each question. Data were analyzed with descriptive
Group 1 – Patients Patients completed the Brief Pain Inventory at the time of a regular appointment. Patients were asked to rate several types of pain on a scale of 0 to 10. (0 being the “no pain” and 10 being “pain as bad as you can imagine.”)
• the worst pain that they had had in the past week
• the mildest pain they had experienced,
• their …show more content…
Group 2 - Physician
Each patient's physician was asked
• to describe the patient's current treatment for pain,
• to characterize the patient's cancer,
• to determine the patient's ECOG performance status, and
• to attribute the patient's pain to the patient's disease, treatment, or other medical or psychological causes.
• to rate on a scale of 0 to 10 the patient's level of pain control and
• to rate the degree to which pain was interfering with activity and sleep.
Each physician confirmed that they filled out the form without reading the patient's responses to the survey. Percentages were calculated based on the number of patients who answered each question. Data were analyzed with descriptive