Nurses' willingness to maximize opioid analgesia for severe cancer pain, and its predictor.

Goals Of Work: The effectiveness of cancer pain management (CPM) is influenced by nurses' willingness to maximize opioid analgesia for severe cancer pain. The purposes of this study were to identify the willingness of nurses to provide maximum-dose opioids whenever needed for CPM and to determine its associated predictors.

Methods: This multicenter study was conducted among the entire total of registered nurses in seven large hospitals in Korea.

Multicenter study of pain and its management in patients with advanced cancer in Korea.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence, severity, and management of pain in Korean patients with advanced cancer, and to identify the predictors of inadequate management of cancer pain in Korea. From 8 university hospitals, 655 patients with advanced cancer were surveyed. Information concerning analgesics prescribed was acquired from the medical records by the investigator.

The effects of aromatherapy on pruritus in patients undergoing hemodialysis.

This study was designed to investigate the effects of aromatherapy on pruritus in patients with chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis. The participants were 29 adult patients living in Seoul, Korea. Thirteen patients were assigned to the experimental group and received the aromatherapy massage on the arm 3 times a week for 4 weeks.