The undertreatment of pain in ambulatory AIDS patients

W Breitbart, BD Rosenfeld, SD Passik, MV McDonald… - Pain, 1996 - Elsevier
Pain is highly prevalent in individuals with HIV disease, yet is often overlooked as a
symptom requiring clinical intervention. We evaluated the adequacy of analgesic …

A comparison of pain report and adequacy of analgesic therapy in ambulatory AIDS patients with and without a history of substance abuse

W Breitbart, B Rosenfeld, S Passik, M Kaim… - Pain, 1997 - Elsevier
Concerns are often raised regarding the credibility of patients' report of pain and this
concern is heightened among individuals with AIDS, where many patients have a history of …

Patient-related barriers to pain management in ambulatory AIDS patients

W Breitbart, S Passik, MV McDonald, B Rosenfeld… - Pain, 1998 - Elsevier
A number of studies have demonstrated that pain is dramatically undertreated among
patients with AIDS and that opioids in particular are rarely prescribed. To date, however …

Pain in ambulatory AIDS patients. I: Pain characteristics and medical correlates

W Breitbart, MV McDonald, B Rosenfeld, SD Passik… - Pain, 1996 - Elsevier
The characteristics and impact of pain were evaluated in a prospective cross-sectional
survey of 438 ambulatory AIDS patients recruited from health care facilities in New York City …

[HTML][HTML] Pain and physical and psychological symptoms in ambulatory HIV patients in the current treatment era

JS Merlin, L Cen, A Praestgaard, M Turner… - Journal of pain and …, 2012 - Elsevier
CONTEXT: HIV infection has become a manageable chronic disease. There are few studies
of pain and symptoms in the current treatment era. OBJECTIVES: Our primary objective was …

Pain syndromes and etiologies in ambulatory AIDS patients

DJ Hewitt, M McDonald, RK Portenoy, B Rosenfeld… - Pain, 1997 - Elsevier
Ambulatory AIDS patients participating in a quality of life study were recruited for an
assessment of pain syndromes. Of 274 patients with pain, 151 (55%) consented to the …

Inadequate treatment of pain in ambulatory HIV patients

JP McCormack, R Li, D Zarowny… - The Clinical journal of …, 1993 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of pain, how pain affects patients' lives, what
treatments are being used, and the effectiveness of these pain treatments in ambulatory …

[HTML][HTML] Clinicians' perceptions of barriers to pain management in AIDS

W Breitbart, M Kaim, B Rosenfeld - Journal of Pain and Symptom …, 1999 - Elsevier
A growing body of literature has demonstrated the widespread undertreatment of pain in
patients with AIDS. While clinician-related barriers to cancer pain management have been …

Chronic pain in HIV-infected patients: relationship to depression, substance use, and mental health and pain treatment

LA Uebelacker, RB Weisberg, DS Herman… - Pain …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Objective As the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy, HIV has become a chronic
disease for most individuals in developed countries. Chronic pain is a common occurrence …

Risk factors and symptoms associated with pain in HIV-infected adults

BE Aouizerat, CA Miaskowski, C Gay, CJ Portillo… - Journal of the …, 2010 - Elsevier
Studies suggest that people living with HIV (PLWH) experience many unrelieved symptoms.
The purpose of this study was to estimate the occurrence of pain in adult PLWH and to …