Cancer Pain Management in Resource-Limited Settings: A Practice Review

Pain in cancer is a common and burdensome symptom with different causes but in a significant number of cases it is undiagnosed and undertreated because of lack of skills for its assessment. Pain has significant negative impact on the patient and, therefore, it needs to be managed urgently and approp...

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Autores principales: Namukwaya, Elizabeth, Leng, Mhoira, Downing, Julia, Katabira, Elly
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3236429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22191020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/393404
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description Pain in cancer is a common and burdensome symptom with different causes but in a significant number of cases it is undiagnosed and undertreated because of lack of skills for its assessment. Pain has significant negative impact on the patient and, therefore, it needs to be managed urgently and appropriately. In resource-limited settings, there are several barriers and challenges to pain management but even in these circumstances pain can be well managed with planned and innovative use of resources and if the World Health Organization public health system approach is used to ensure opioid availability.
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spelling pubmed-32364292011-12-21 Cancer Pain Management in Resource-Limited Settings: A Practice Review Namukwaya, Elizabeth Leng, Mhoira Downing, Julia Katabira, Elly Pain Res Treat Review Article Pain in cancer is a common and burdensome symptom with different causes but in a significant number of cases it is undiagnosed and undertreated because of lack of skills for its assessment. Pain has significant negative impact on the patient and, therefore, it needs to be managed urgently and appropriately. In resource-limited settings, there are several barriers and challenges to pain management but even in these circumstances pain can be well managed with planned and innovative use of resources and if the World Health Organization public health system approach is used to ensure opioid availability. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3236429/ /pubmed/22191020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/393404 Text en Copyright © 2011 Elizabeth Namukwaya et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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