International consensus meeting on assessment of cancer pain
The meeting was organized by the Center for the Evaluation and Research on Pain (CERP), Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milan, Italy, the European Palliative Care Research Collaborative (EPCRC) and the Pain and Palliation Research Group, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, and the Palliative Care, Pain Therapy and Rehabilitation Unit of the Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan.
The aim of the meeting was to convene the most important international initiatives on the definition and standardisation of patient reported outcomes in cancer pain assessment. The results of the meeting will be published as a position paper identifying a common agenda and a minimum set of common basic recommendations. These recommendations should help to inform the debate at the international level among clinicians, research bodies and regulatory authorities about the adoption, implementation and analysis of appropriate pain measurement methods in the field of cancer pain research.
The meeting had a format of plenary lectures and workshops and was attended by a total of 28 leading international experts. The experts represented different fields of clinical work and research in relation to cancer pain. The consensus paper will be submitted to an international peer-reviewed journal.
