Pain and Treatment of Pain in Minority Patients with Cancer: The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Minority Outpatient Pain Study

S. Cleeland, Charles; Gonin, Rene; Baez, Luis; Loehrer, Patrick; J. Pandya, Kishan

doi:10.7326/0003-4819-127-9-199711010-00006

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Pain and Treatment of Pain in Minority Patients with Cancer: The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Minority Outpatient Pain Study

Published in Annals of Internal Medicine • Nov 1, 1997

Authors:

Charles S. Cleeland

Rene Gonin

Luis Baez

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Clinics that primarily see members of ethnic minority groups have been found to provide inadequate treatment of cancer-related pain. The extent of undertreatment of pain in these patients and the factors that contribute to undertreatment are not known. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the severit...

Subject

Medicine

Cancer pain

Analgesic

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