Costanza Maria Donati, Erika Galietta, Francesco Cellini, Alessia Di Rito, Maurizio Portaluri, Cristina De Tommaso, Anna Santacaterina, Consuelo Tamburella, Filippo Mammini, Rossella Di Franco, Salvatore Parisi, Sabrina Cossa, Antonella Bianculli, Pierpaolo Ziccarelli, Luigi Ziccarelli, Domenico Genovesi, Luciana Caravatta, Francesco Deodato, Gabriella Macchia, Francesco Fiorica, Giuseppe Napoli, Silvia Cammelli, Letizia Cavallini, Milly Buwenge, Romina Rossi, Marco Maltoni, Alessio Giuseppe Morganti, Savino Cilla
BACKGROUND: The primary objective of this study was to assess the adequacy of analgesic care in radiotherapy (RT) patients, with a secondary objective to identify predictive variables associated with pain management adequacy using a modern statistical approach, integrating the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) algorithm and the Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis. METHODS: This observational, multicenter cohort study involved 1387 patients reporting pain or taking analgesic drugs from 13 RT departments in Italy...
April 3, 2024: Cancers