Characteristics of Breakthrough Pain and Its Impact on Quality of Life in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients
| Autor: | Valerio Dimonte, Riccardo Sperlinga, Veronica Sciannameo, Sara Campagna, Silvia Gonella |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Palliative care Breakthrough Pain neoplasms Terminally ill Opioid lcsh:RC254-282 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life Pain assessment Internal medicine Epidemiology medicine pain assessment 80 and over breakthrough pain epidemiology palliative care patient perspective quality of life Aged Aged 80 and over Analgesics Opioid Female Humans Longitudinal Studies Middle Aged Neoplasms Pain Measurement Quality of Life Terminally Ill 030212 general & internal medicine Research Articles Analgesics business.industry Cancer medicine.disease lcsh:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens Complementary and alternative medicine Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Observational study business |
| Zdroj: | Integrative Cancer Therapies, Vol 18 (2019) Integrative Cancer Therapies |
| Popis: | Purpose. This study aimed to characterize breakthrough pain (BTP) and investigate its impact on quality-of-life (QoL) in terminally-ill cancer patients. Similarities and differences between high and low predictable BTP were also tested. Methods. Secondary analysis of a multicenter longitudinal observational study included 92 patients at their end-of-life. BTP was assessed with a short form of the Italian version of the Alberta Breakthrough Pain Assessment Tool. QoL was assessed with the Palliative Outcome Scale (0-40). Patients were stratified by self-reported BTP predictability into unpredictable BTP (never or rarely able to predict BTP) and predictable BTP (sometimes to always able to predict BTP). Results. In all, 665 BTP episodes were recorded (median 0.86 episodes/day). A median duration of 30 minutes and a median peak intensity score of 7 out of 10 were reported. Time to peak was |
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