What is it about?
Oncologic Pain control in Hospital setting is still a huge problem; we try to pilot an improvement program with 5 components to have pain control and long sustainibility results. The 5 active ingredients to achieve a better management of pain in hospitalized cancer patients seem to be: training of ward professionals, education of patients and no professionals caregivers, regular pain assesment, specialist level pain consultation procedures and involvement of Hospital management.
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Why is it important?
multicomponent program is feasible in hospital setting and guarantee a long standing sustainibility. Daily discussions, daily pain assesment and readily available specialized palliative care service are the most important components
Perspectives
Working on this topic has allowed to me to understand better some dynamics inside an hospital ward and to train a multidisciplinary Group to educate patients and relatives. I hope this article leave the "take home message" that to manage pain its evaluation is not enough,but it's more important to educate professional and no professionals togheter with pain specialists.
Silvia Tanzi
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This page is a summary of: Long-term sustainability of a quality improvement program on cancer pain management: a complex intervention in an inpatient setting, Tumori Journal, August 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0300891619869513.
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