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Sandra E. Ward
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 115
Citations - 7582
Sandra E. Ward is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer pain & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 112 publications receiving 6995 citations. Previous affiliations of Sandra E. Ward include American Pain Society.
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Quality Improvement Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Pain and Cancer Pain
Mitchell B. Max,Marilee I. Donovan,Christine A. Miaskowski,Sandra E. Ward,Debra Gordon,Marilyn Bookbinder,Charles S. Cleeland,Nessa Coyle,Margaret Kiss,Howard T. Thaler,Nora A. Janjan,A. Anderson,Sharon Weinstein,W. Thomas Edwards +13 more
TL;DR: Quality improvement programs to improve treatment of acute pain and cancer pain should include five key elements: ensuring that a report of unrelieved pain raises a "red flag" that attracts clinicians' attention, and coordinating and assessing implementation of these measures.
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Patient-related barriers to management of cancer pain
Sandra E. Ward,Nancy J. Goldberg,Vickie Miller-McCauley,Carol Mueller,Ann Nolan,Darlene Pawlik-Plank,Alice Robbins,Doris Stormoen,David E. Weissman +8 more
TL;DR: To explore patients' reluctance to report pain and to use analgesics, 270 patients with cancer completed a 27‐item self‐report questionnaire (BQ) that assessed the extent to which they have concerns about reporting pain and using pain medication.
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Caregiving demands and appraisal of stress among family caregivers.
TL;DR: There was a strong positive correlation between caregiver load and the harm/loss and threat appraisals and a need for frequent reassessment of demands on family caregivers throughout the course of treatment.
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Patient-related barriers to pain management: the barriers questionnaire II (BQ-II)
TL;DR: The results indicated that patients with cancer had higher mean scores on the Barriers Questionnaire‐II than did nurses trained in pain management, and the BQ‐II is a reliable and valid measure of patient‐related barriers to cancer pain management.
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Patient-centered interventions.
Diane Lauver,Sandra E. Ward,Susan M. Heidrich,Mary L. Keller,Barbara J. Bowers,Patricia Flatley Brennan,Karin T. Kirchhoff,Thelma J. Wells +7 more
TL;DR: The concept patient centered is described, the development of research on PCIs is summarized, kinds of PCIs are discussed, examples ofPCIs and how they have been derived and implemented are provided, and issues for theory and future research are raised.