Purpose/Objectives: To describe the pain experience of outpatients with cancer and explore the relationships with sleep disturbance, depression, and patient functioning. Design: Descriptive, cross-sectional study. Setting: Outpatient clinics at a large comprehensive cancer center in the...

Purpose/Objectives : To describe a complex coaching intervention to help patients with cancer pain explore beliefs and attitudinal barriers interfering with pain management. Patients were coached to explore beliefs about pain, communications about pain management, and the use of analgesics and...

Purpose/Objectives: To review strategies to optimize the management of chronic pain in patients with cancer, with an emphasis on the role of opioid analgesics. Data Sources: Published research, articles from a literature review, and U. S. statistics. Data Synthesis: Treatment for cancer pain...