Clinical efficacy and implementation issues of an electronic pain reporting device among outpatients with cancer.

Implementation of PAINReportIt® was feasible in community oncology clinic settings. Barriers identified were expected and were surmountable. The studied tool showed satisfactory time sparing for comprehensive pain assessment with data automatically recorded and easily accessed by the clinician in the form of a summary report. Findings support the need for additional research to demonstrate the clinical efficacy of tablet-based pain assessment on patient outcomes as well as clinical care processes such as pain documentation and analgesic prescriptions.