The management of cancer-related breakthrough pain: recommendations of a task group of the Science Committee of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland.
A task group of the Science Committee of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland (APM) was convened to produce some up-to-date, evidence-based, practical, clinical guidelines on the management of cancer-related breakthrough pain in adults. On the basis of a review of the literature, the task group was unable to make recommendations about any individual interventions, but was able to make a series of 12 recommendations about certain generic strategies. However, most of the aforementioned recommendations are based on limited evidence (i.e., case series, expert opinion). The task group also proposed a definition of breakthrough pain, and some diagnostic criteria for breakthrough pain.
Davies
Andrew N
AN
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Palliative Medicine, Sutton, United Kingdom. andrew.davies@rmh.nhs.uk
Dickman
Andrew
A
Reid
Colette
C
Stevens
Anna-Marie
AM
Zeppetella
Giovambattista
G
D000698:Analgesia / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D000700:Analgesics / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D018710:Pain Clinics / Q000592:standards; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D012646:Self Administration
D000700:Analgesics; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid