The 1986 NIH consensus development conference, The Integrated Approach to the Management of Pain, recommended considering pain as 3 separate constructs: acute pain associated with malignant disease, persistent pain associated with malignant disease, and persistent pain not associated with malignant disease. Most research into persistent malignant pain has been done in cancer and AIDS patient populations, but the treatment principles apply to all types of persistent pain associated with progressive, potentially life limiting disorders. Therefore, the clinical applicability of many of the treatment recommendations in this module extend well beyond patients with pain due to cancer.

Topics covered in this module

• Evaluation of the pain complaint
• Interpreting pain assessment
• Assessment of related factors
• Cancer pain syndromes

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Release date, September 2007. Expiration date, December 2009.

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