Adaptation of international guidelines on assessment and management of cancer pain for the A ustralian context

M Lovell, T Luckett, F Boyle, J Stubbs… - Asia‐Pacific Journal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To develop clinical practice guidelines for screening, assessing and managing cancer
pain in Australian adults. Methods This three‐phase project utilized the ADAPTE approach …

Symptoms experienced by cancer patients during the first year from diagnosis: patient and informal caregiver ratings and agreement

A Molassiotis, Y Zheng, L Denton-Cardew… - … & supportive care, 2010 - cambridge.org
Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the symptom experience of patients with
cancer, identify changes in symptoms over time, and explore the congruence of symptom …

What are the current challenges of managing cancer pain and could digital technologies help?

R Adam, M de Bruin, CD Burton, CM Bond… - BMJ supportive & …, 2018 - spcare.bmj.com
Objectives Pain remains a problem for people with cancer despite effective treatments being
available. We aimed to explore current pain management strategies used by patients …

Implications of a needs assessment intervention for people with progressive cancer: impact on clinical assessment, response and service utilisation

A Waller, A Girgis, C Johnson… - Psycho …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To assess the impact of the systematic use of the Palliative Care Needs
Assessment Guidelines and Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease‐Cancer (NAT …

The SYMPTOM‐upper gastrointestinal study: A mixed methods study exploring symptom appraisal and help‐seeking in Australian upper gastrointestinal cancer …

N Karnchanachari, S Milton… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective There is limited evidence on the development of pancreatic and oesophagogastric
cancer, how patients decide to seek help and the factors impacting help‐seeking. Our study …

Recommended patient-reported core set of symptoms to measure in adult cancer treatment trials

BB Reeve, SA Mitchell, AC Dueck… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background The National Cancer Institute's Symptom Management and Health-
Related Quality of Life Steering Committee held a clinical trials planning meeting …

What Are the Most Important Symptom Targets When Treating Advanced Cancer? A Survey of Providers in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) …

D Cella, D Paul, S Yount, R Winn, CH Chang… - Cancer …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
We derived a set of brief, clinically relevant symptom indices for assessing symptomatic
response to chemotherapy for advanced bladder, brain, breast, colorectal, head and neck …

Health service utilisation by people living with chronic non-cancer pain: findings from the Pain and Opioids IN Treatment (POINT) study

S Nielsen, G Campbell, A Peacock… - Australian Health …, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Objective The aims of the present study were to describe the use, and barriers to the use, of
non-medication pain therapies and to identify the demographic and clinical correlates of …

Cancer symptom scale preferences: does one size fit all?

K Jeter, S Blackwell, L Burke, D Joyce… - BMJ Supportive & …, 2018 - spcare.bmj.com
Objectives Patients with advanced cancer do not report all symptoms, so assessment is best
done systematically. However, for such patients, completion rates of some symptom …

Patients' experiences and perspectives of multiple concurrent symptoms in advanced cancer: a semi-structured interview study

ST Dong, PN Butow, A Tong, M Agar, F Boyle… - Supportive care in …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose Patients with advanced cancer typically experience multiple concurrent symptoms,
which have a detrimental impact on patient outcomes. No studies to date have qualitatively …