Refractory Cancer Pain and Intrathecal Therapy: Critical Review of a Systematic Review
Pain and Therapy, 2023 This critical review assessed the advantages of invasive procedures that were recently included in systematic reviews, to evaluate whether the definition of refractory pain condition was correctly followed to select patients for invasive interventions ...
Sebastiano Mercadante
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Opioid Atlas: Mapping Access to Pain Medication [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Opiates are some of the most effective pain relief medications available for patients suffering from cancer and surgery-related pain. Despite the affordability and effectiveness of these medications, access to opiates is highly geographically variable. Pain researchers have attributed geographic variation to various factors including the fear of opioid
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Treatment of Solitary Painful Osseous Metastases with Radiotherapy, Cryoablation or Combined Therapy: Propensity Matching Analysis in 175 Patients [PDF]
, 2015 aim of this study was to identify outcomes in pain relief and quality of life in patients with a solitary painful osseous metastasis treated by radiotherapy, cryoablation or the combination using a propensity score matching study ...
Bonfili, Pierluigi +11 more
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Awareness of labour analgesia among antenatal women in semi urban area [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Women’s experience of pain during delivery varies greatly. Various pharmacological and non- pharmacological methods of labour analgesia are available.
G. K., Poomalar, Sameera, Lakshmi
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Mechanical analysis of pimple growth and pain level characterization [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Pimple is one of the most common skin diseases for humans. The mechanical modeling of pimple growth is very limited. A finite element model is developed to quantify the deformation field with the expansion of follicle, and then the mechanical stimulus is related to the sensation of pain during the development of pimple. Through these models, parametric
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Influence of Scheduled Analgesics Administration on Surgical Patients’ Pain Relief in Teaching Hospitals in Port Harcourt, Nigeria [PDF]
, 2021 Pain is a serious problem for surgical patients during the post-operative period. Surgical patients receiving analgesics for pain management after surgery expect to achieve pain relief.
Babalola, Yemisi T. +2 more
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Conditional and marginal relative risk parameters for a class of recursive regression graph models [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 In linear regression modelling the distortion of effects after marginalizing over variables of the conditioning set has been widely studied in several contexts. For Gaussian variables, the relationship between marginal and partial regression coefficients is well-established and the issue is often addressed as a result of W. G. Cochran.
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Feel My Pain: Design and Evaluation of Painpad, a Tangible Device for Supporting Inpatient Self-Logging of Pain [PDF]
, 2018 Monitoring patients' pain is a critical issue for clinical caregivers, particularly among staff responsible for providing analgesic relief. However, collecting regularly scheduled pain readings from patients can be difficult and time-consuming for ...
Bird Marie-Louise +11 more
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Pain relief in hysterosalpingography
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2015 Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is a method of testing for tubal patency. However, women struggle to tolerate the procedure, as it is associated with some discomfort. Various pharmacological strategies are available that may reduce pain during the procedure, though there is no consensus as to the best method.To compare the effectiveness of different types ...
Andrew Watson +4 more
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