General hospital clinicians frequently deal with injecting drug users because substance use
has diverse medical and psychiatric complications. Non-specialist clinicians often initiate …

Cancer‐related pain (CRP) is common and many patients continue to experience pain in
spite of advances in pain management modalities. The lack of knowledge, inadequate …

Effective postoperative pain treatment is an essential component to good quality of care. The
purpose of this study was to explore nurses' knowledge of and attitudes toward pain in …

BACKGROUND: The presence of pain is one of the main reasons why people seek health
care, however pain is often undertreated. Inadequate treatment has been linked to health …

BACKGROUND: Aging is known to be associated with a high prevalence (up to 80%) of
persistent pain among residents of nursing homes. However, even with high pain …

Despite advances in pain management, critically ill patients continue to have unacceptably
high rates of uncontrolled pain. Using the Behavioural Pain Scale and physiological …

A self-report questionnaire was answered by 114 nurses working at the internal medicine,
oncology, and surgery clinics. The most commonly perceived barriers to pain management …

Background: Pain is the most disturbing and annoying symptom experienced by medical
patients, yet it is poorly managed. Despite having many researches and scientific …

The aims of this study were to survey the knowledge and attitudes of Italian health care
professionals toward pain and develop a valid instrument to assess pain knowledge of …

Objectives The purpose of this study was to describe:(1) pain indicators used by nurses and
physicians to assess pain,(2) pain management interventions (pharmacological and non …