Painful bone metastases: a prospective observational cohort study.

Incident pain related to bone metastases is a problematic symptom to treat. The difficulty in treating this type of pain is reflected in the wide variety of treatment modalities recommended. The aims of this prospective observational study were to determine the patterns of pain severity at rest and on movement over time and which treatment modalities are employed.

Falls in hospices: a cancer network observational study of fall rates and risk factors.

Falls have been identified as a problem in frail patient populations, but their risk factors have not been studied prospectively in the hospice setting. We calculated fall rates in three hospices in the Yorkshire region, identified risk factors for falls based on previous studies in elderly patients, and then carried out a prospective study of inpatients in two of these hospices. We compared these risk factors in patients who subsequently fell with patients that did not fall during the study period.