Prevalence of acute pain crisis in specialist palliative care clinic.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: C00-D49- Neoplasms
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/02/062517
- Lead Sponsor
- il
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients who present to Palliative Medicine outpatient clinic with pain score of more than equal to 7 on Numerical Rating Scale and a score of more than equal to 4 on Distress thermometer
Patients with cancer referred to Palliative Medicine outpatient clinic for Early palliative care
Patients with cancer referred to Palliative Medicine outpatient clinic for Best supportive care alone
Able to communicate and understand in English or Hindi or Marathi
Exclusion Criteria
Patients with known allergies or history of adverse reactions to analgesics
Patients who are cognitively impaired
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Prevalence of acute pain crisis in patients with cancer presenting in Specialist Palliative outpatient clinicTimepoint: 6 months from start of study
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain Quality Descriptors Yes or No <br/ ><br>Burning <br/ ><br>Pricking <br/ ><br>Shooting <br/ ><br>Electrical or Shock like <br/ ><br>Throbbing <br/ ><br>Radiating <br/ ><br>Numbing <br/ ><br>Dull aching <br/ ><br>Cramping <br/ ><br>Tender <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Timepoint: Baseline;Demographic characteristics from EMRTimepoint: Baseline;Distress Thermometer ScoreTimepoint: Baseline;Pain score using Numerical Rating scaleTimepoint: Baseline,15 minutes and 30 minutes;Symptoms on ESAS-rTimepoint: Baseline