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Management of Cancer Pain (Second Edition)
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• The following tools have shown good diagnostic properties in
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satisfaction and improve rapport with healthcare providers. There
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18.6%) because of greater clarity and understandability, the ‘‘past
24 hours’’ time window (52.8%) was favoured over ‘‘now’’ (21.3%)
• shortness of breath and nausea correlated better for the ‘‘past 24
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reliability (ICC=0.69)

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