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Supportive Care Information for Health Professionals
By The National Cancer Institute
Important: This information is intended for use by doctors and other health care professionals. If you are a cancer patient, your doctor can explain how it applies to you, or you can call the Cancer Information Service at 1-800-422-6237.
Introduction
Attention Clinicians:
The Clinical Practice Guideline on which this Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians is based was initially developed by an interdisciplinary, …
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…to health care professionals:
Inadequate knowledge of pain management
Poor assessment of pain
Concern about regulation of controlled substances
Fear of patient addiction
Concern about side effects of analgesics
Concern about patients becoming tolerant to analgesics
Problems related to patients:
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**Bibliography**
The National Cancer Institute of The National Institutes of Health. Supportive Care Information for Health Professionals: Pain. February 1998. Last modified August 1999. (Online) http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/clinpdq/supportive/Pain_Physician.html PDQ
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