The Tri-Institutional Pain Registry—Analysis of Outpatient Pain Management at a Specialized Cancer Center

Abstract

A limited set of medications was required to manage most patients in the clinic, supporting the continued place of opioids and the World Health Organization analgesic ladder in managing cancer pain. Women may need a more nuanced approach for obtaining the best balance of pain relief and side effects.

Neuropathic Pain Registries Improve Pain Management and Provide More Efficacious Planning of Healthcare Services

“…Taking all the above into consideration, the existence and usage of neuropathic pain registries to their full extent could not only lead to better patient management but also serve as a useful tool for the development and planning of pain management services. Useful information, apart from the prevalence and the treatment costs, than could be gathered from neuropathic pain registries could be medication usage for specific types of neuropathic pain, medication tolerance or failure, medication side effects, coping strategies of patients (like distraction strategies or trigger point massaging for myofascial pain), usage of health care and pain services, success or failure of pain procedures, and many other important information [24][25][26].…”