Patient Trade-Offs Related to Analgesic Use for Cancer Pain: A  MaxDiff Analysis Study

Many patients with cancer pain deviate from prescribed analgesic regimens. Our aim was to elicit the trade-offs patients make based on their beliefs about analgesic use and rank utilities (importance scores) using maximum difference (MaxDiff) scaling. We also investigated if there were unique clusters of patients based on their analgesic beliefs.

Source: Pain Management Nursing - October 20, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: William E. Rosa, Jesse Chittams, Barbara Riegel, Connie M. Ulrich, Salimah H. Meghani Tags: Original Article Source Type: research