Pain management index (PMI)-does it reflect cancer patients' wish for focus on pain?

Morten ThronaesTrude Rakel BalstadCinzia BrunelliErik Torbjørn LøhrePål KlepstadOla Magne VagnildhaugStein KaasaAnne Kari KnudsenTora Skeidsvoll Solheim

Published in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2019)

A high prevalence of negative PMI was observed, but only 1/5 of patients with a negative PMI wanted more attention to pain by their physician. Our findings challenge the use of PMI as a measure of undertreatment of cancer pain.

Keyphrases

pain management
chronic pain
neuropathic pain
emergency department
primary care
working memory
papillary thyroid
spinal cord
squamous cell
childhood cancer