title: [Patients with cancer-related pain and other chronic pain. Priorities and assessment].
abstract: In a survey completed at our hospital, 519 doctors and nurses were asked how pain treatment was estimated whether it received priority, and to what degree patients' pain syndromes were assessed. A total of 473 responded to the questionnaire. In the study cancer-related pain and pain from causes other than cancer were assessed in separate population groups. The responders considered that the staff gave higher priority to patients with cancer-related pain, than to patients with other pain. There was a discrepancy between the physicians' and the nurses' answers to the question whether optimal pain relief was obtained. In the cancer pain group, 94% of the physicians and 78% of the nurses assumed that optimal pain relief was obtained fairly often or very often. The corresponding figures in the non-cancer pain group were 53% for the physicians and 35% for the nurses. Only 46% assumed that a planned pain assessment was done as a routine. Physicians and nurses alike experienced great inadequacy in their work with patients in pain. This was expressed more clearly in connection with pain not caused by cancer.
authors.affiliation: Smerteseksjonen Anestesiavdelingen, Regionsykehuset i Trondheim.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Skauge
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Borchgrevink
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaasa
mesh_terms: D000698:Analgesia / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009664:Norway; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000592:standards; D018579:Patient Selection; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Pasienter med kreftrelaterte og andre kroniske smerter. Prioritering og vurdering.