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. 2020 Jan-Feb;25(1):62-73.

Cancer pain… who cares? International and national patterns of evidence-based global guidelines recommendations for physicians on the Web (2011 vs. 2018)

Davide Mauri  1 , Konstantina Kalopita, Lampriani Tsali, Nikolaos P Polyzos, Antonis Valachis, Panagiotis Filis, Georgios Zarkavelis, Christos Georgopoulos, Georgia Zafeiri, Melina Yerolatsite, Nikolaos Papaioannou, Fani Kapoulitsa, Dimitrios Valsamidis, Evangelia Peponi, Thomas Vrekoussis, Panagiotis Ntellas, Eleftheria Tzamachou, Georgios Pentheroudakis
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Cancer pain… who cares? International and national patterns of evidence-based global guidelines recommendations for physicians on the Web (2011 vs. 2018)

Davide Mauri et al. J BUON. 2020 Jan-Feb.

Abstract

Purpose: Although pain is a common event during treatment of cancer, its assessment and management remains suboptimal in everyday clinical practice at global level.

Methods: Considering both the important role of internet in daily life and that clinical guidelines are important for translating evidence in clinical practice, we performed a prospective study to scrutinize the magnitude of updated evidence-based cancer-pain guideline recommendation for physicians on the web. Changes over-time at a global level were scrutinized at two time points: 2011 for baseline and 2018 at first follow-up. Both anesthesiology and oncology societies were analyzed.

Results: In 2011 we scrutinized 181,00 WebPages and 370 eligible societies were identified; 364 of these were eligible for analyses both in 2011 and 2018. The magnitude of cancer pain updated and evidence-based guideline recommendations on the web for health care providers was extremely low at global level and at any time point considered: 1.1% (4/364) in 2011 and 4.7% (17/364) in 2018. Continental and intercontinental patterns, National's highest developmental index, oncology tradition and economic-geographic areas were not found to influence cancer pain web-guideline provision. In 2018, pain & supportive care societies provided the highest rate of updated evidence-based cancer-pain guidelines for clinicians. Only 3/25 medical oncology societies and 1/34 radiation oncology societies, provided own or e-link (to other societies') evidence-based guidelines in their websites.

Conclusions: Major medical oncology and radiation oncology societies - at global level - fail to produce updated cancer pain recommendations for their physicians, with most of these providing no or inconsistent or outdated guidelines.

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