[Prevalence and clinical characteristics of pain in patients with advanced chronic disease].

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Determine pain prevalence and clinical characteristics in patients with advanced chronic disease and identify breakthrough pain frequency.

Design

Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study.

Location

Three primary care teams and one intermediate care hospital.

Participants

All patients with advanced chronic disease.

Main measurements

A semi-structured interview was performed to collect demographic, clinical, and specific variables of pain using validated scales. Patient location (home, nursing home or hospital) and advanced chronicity trajectory (organ failure, oncological disease, dementia, or multimorbidity) were recorded. Pain was assessed based on the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) and, in cases of disabling dementia, using the Pain Asse

SUBMITTER: Ballarin Castany A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10505975 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature