Can cancer patients assess the influence of pain on functions A randomised, controlled study of the pain interference items in the Brief Pain Inventory.docVIP

BMC Palliative Care BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Can cancer patients assess the influence of pain on functions? A randomised, controlled study of the pain interference items in the Brief Pain Inventory Guri Stenseth1, Marit Bj?rnnes1, Stein Kaasa1,3 and P?l Klepstad*2,4 Address: 1Dept. of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 2Dept. of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, 3Department of Oncology, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway and 4Depar