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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE
Volume 33, Issue 6, Pages 599-612Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1049909115586394
Keywords
cancer; pain management; pain assessment; patient education
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This literature review aims to synthesize available studies and to update findings in order to obtain a current, comprehensive estimate of the benefits of pain education. Forty-four original articles obtained from the PubMed database were analyzed to investigate which protocols could be most effective in improving pain management. Recent studies indicate a growing interest in evaluating patients' skills and attitudes; these include satisfaction with cancer pain treatment, patient-reported improvement, and patient participationall of which could be dependable benchmarks for evaluating the effectiveness of educational programs. Besides pain measurement, recent studies advance support for the importance of assessing newly developed outcome criteria. In this sense, patients' active participation and decision making in their pain management are probably the most relevant goals of pain education.
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