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, …showed first 75 words of 785 total…

…showed last 75 words of 785 total…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: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **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