Purpose/Objectives: To identify the most appropriate outcome measures to determine the effectiveness of pain management plans in older adults with cancer. Data Sources: PubMed literature searches, medical and nursing textbooks, and clinical experience. Data Synthesis: Unrelieved chronic pain can...

Purpose/Objectives: To describe approaches to pain assessment in cognitively intact and cognitively impaired older adults with cancer. Data Sources: MEDLINE® literature search, personal reference collection, and clinical experience. Data Synthesis: A systematic and comprehensive pain assessment is...

Purpose/Objectives: To determine whether mastery, the personal control felt over occurrences perceived to have an important effect on one's life, influences the resolution of pain and fatigue severity. Design: Secondary data analysis of two randomized clinical trials. Setting: Accrual from two...

Purpose/Objectives: To introduce the use of a statistical technique known as multilevel growth-curve analysis and illustrate how the method can be advantageous in comparison with traditional repeated measures for the study of trajectories of signs and symptoms in individual patients over time. Data...