Neuropathic Pain Components in Patients with Cancer: Prevalence, Treatment, and Interference with Daily Activities.

Background: Pain and neuropathic symptoms impact quality of life of patients with cancer. To obtain more insight in the prevalence, severity, and treatment of neuropathic symptoms in patients with cancer and their interference with daily activities, we conducted a cross-sectional study at the outpatient clinic of a Dutch university hospital.

Methods: A cross-sectional study among outpatients with cancer.

Adaptation of an evidence-based clinical practice guideline in cancer pain management by medical oncologists: a case vignette study.

Purpose: Pain is a major problem in all cancer stages. Cancer pain guidelines are developed to improve management of pain. It is unclear whether these recommendations are applied in daily practice.

Patient empowerment in cancer pain management: an integrative literature review.

Objective: More than 50% of patients with cancer experience pain. Patient empowerment has been highlighted as central to success in pain management. Up to now, no clear model for this patient group exists, yet several strategies to empower patients have been used in clinical practice.

Pain is not systematically registered in Dutch medical oncology outpatients.

Background: Systematic pain registration and assessment with a visual analog scale (VAS) or numeric rating scale (NRS) at each visit are key recommendations in one of the most recent guidelines on cancer pain management. It is unclear whether this recommendation is applied.

Objectives: The aim was to explore registration of pain in medical records of patients visiting the medical oncology outpatient clinic.

Pain and its interference with daily activities in medical oncology outpatients.

Background: Pain prevalence at various stages of cancer ranges from 27% to 60% for outpatients. Yet, how pain is managed in this patient group is poorly understood.

Objectives: The primary objective was to assess pain prevalence and intensity, and its interference with daily activities, in medical oncology outpatients.

Rationale, design, and implementation protocol of the Dutch clinical practice guideline pain in patients with cancer: a cluster randomised controlled trial with Short Message Service (SMS) and Interactive Voice Response (IVR).

Background: One-half of patients with cancer have pain. In nearly one out of two cancer patients with pain, this was undertreated. Inadequate pain control still remains an important problem in this group of patients.