SDW news brief: End-of-life pain widespread, potentially controllable
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, November 12, 2010
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In the first study to look at the prevalence of pain experienced among older people during the last two years of life, researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center found that 46% of study participants suffered moderate to severe pain during their final four months of life.
The researchers also found that more 26% of the participants had moderate to severe pain during the last two years of life, and that arthritis was the biggest single predictor of pain, outweighing all eventual causes of death including cancer.
For many patients approaching death, especially those with arthritis, the pain is potentially controllable. The study appears in the November 2, 2010 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Source: HealthLeaders Media
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