Cancer-Related Pain: A Longitudinal Study of Time to Stable Pain Control and Its Clinicodemographic Predictors

AbstractContextMultidimensional assessment is pivotal in managing cancer-related pain. ObjectivesThe objectives of this study were to determine time to stable pain control (SPC) and identify its baseline clinicodemographic predictors in patients with cancer pain. MethodsThis is a prospective longitudinal study of patients attending a cancer pain clinic. Scheduled clinic attendances and weekly investigator-led phone calls enabled monitoring of patients' daily pain diary, opioid use, and other analgesic interventions. Baseline clinicodemographic variables were examined in survival analyses, which included the construction of accelerated failure time models with time ratios [TRs, (95% CIs)], based on time to SPC (pain intensity ≤3 and