Breakthrough and Episodic Cancer Pain from a Palliative Care Perspective

Curr Oncol. 2023 Nov 30;30(12):10249-10259. doi: 10.3390/curroncol30120746.ABSTRACTCancer pain intensity (PI) fluctuates, but the relationship between pain flares and background pain with respect to pain management is not settled. We studied how flare and background PIs corresponded with treatment results for background cancer pain. Patients admitted to an acute palliative care unit with average and/or worst PI ≥ 1 on the 11-point numeric rating scale were included. Average and worst PI at admission and average PI at discharge were collected. We examined how the difference and ratio between worst and average PI and average PI at admission, were associated with average…
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