Outcome assessment of pain: functional status measures and quality of life as therapeutic endpoints.
These studies and others will provide tools for cancer treatment centers to integrate pain management into comprehensive care strategies. Pharmacists in all health care settings where the cancer patient with pain is being treated should take leadership roles in the improvement of therapeutic outcomes. This leadership is essential, because drug therapy remains the mainstay of palliation.
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School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
D001168:Arthritis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D011788:Quality of Life; D014481:United States