Identifying pain-related concerns in routine follow-up clinics following oral and oropharyngeal cancer

Table 1 Touch-screen responses from 177 patients to questions about pain on the University of Washington Quality of Life questionnaire and on the Liverpool Patients Concerns Inventory before first study attendance at clinic from October 2008 to January 2011

UW-QOL Pain	Stated on PCI that patient wished to discuss the issue of “Pain in head and neck”
	No (Stated on PCI that patient wished to discuss the issue of “Pain elsewhere”)		Yes (Stated on PCI that patient wished to discuss the issue of “Pain elsewhere”)
	No	Yes	No	Yes
(0) I have severe pain, not controlled by medication	32	-2	-2	22
(25) I have severe pain controlled only by prescription medicine (e.g., morphine)	112	32	22	12
(50) I have moderate pain - requires medication (e.g., paracetamol)/and pain IMPORTANT1	102	32	62	32
(50) I have moderate pain - requires medication (e.g., paracetamol)/and pain NOT IMPORTANT1	13	22	32	-2
(75) There is mild pain not needing medication	22	32	82	-2
(100) I have no pain	75	-2	72	-2

¹Pain was one of three issues most important to patient within the past week;

²Represents those who had reported “significant problems” on the University of Washington Quality of Life questionnaire, version 4 (UW-QOL) or those who had raised pain concerns on the Patients Concerns Inventory (PCI).