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Pain management issues: the cost of medications in rural settings
— the cost of medications in rural settings | | Author(s) | Jo Ann Dalton, John Carlson, J Douglas Mann |
| Journal title | The Hospice Journal, vol 13, no 4, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 19-32 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Pain ; Cancer ; Drugs ; Costs [care] ; Rural areas ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Cost of analgesic and adjuvant medications used by rural patients with cancer cared for by 29 nurses participating in an in-depth education programme were evaluated before and after the programme. Across all time periods, the median daily cost was US$5.16 across all medications; further costings are given. Average pain intensity did not change over time, and was not related to prescribing patterns or daily costs. Whilst professional education was demonstrated to produce change in prescribing practices, further research is needed to evaluate patterns of medication administration and effectiveness patterns using reliable outcome measures other than self report of pain intensity. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990223238 A |
| Classmark | CT7: CK: LLD: QDC: RL: 7T |
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