Background Defining the main barriers and facilitators of cancer pain self-management are
essential to improve patients' overall quality of life. Aim The main purpose of this review was …

Introduction: Undertreatment of cancer pain is associated with inadequate assessment and
inconsistent or non-standardized classification, resulting in failure to both appreciate its …

Objective. This discussion document about the management of cancer pain is written from
the pain specialists' perspective in order to provoke thought and interest in a multimodal …

Purpose: barriers to managing cancer pain contribute to cancer patients' reluctance to report
pain and use prescribed analgesics, resulting in inadequate pain control. Patients' …

Background Pain in advanced cancer is complex and multifaceted. In older patients
comorbidities and age-related functional decline add to the difficulties in managing cancer …

Objectives: To explore the palliative care needs of nursing home residents in Germany who
had not yet entered the dying phase. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted …

Psychosocial factors impacting the overall quality of life for cancer patients may differ
between younger and older adults. The objective of this study was to examine the …

Objectives The aim was to explore and describe community pharmacists' current and
potential place in the cancer pain pathway. Objectives were to describe pharmacists' role in …

The appendix includes a broader range of evidence that was gathered and upon which the
recommendations for further work were based. This is organised according to the initial …

BACKGROUND: A comprehensive assessment of patient hesitancy to use analgesics and
accurate knowledge related to the promotion of analgesic adherence is necessary for …