Table 4.

Multivariate analysis for predictable BTP.

Factors	β	p	(95% CI)
Age	−0.01	0.37	−0.02	0.00
Place of visit	0.00	0.63	−0.03	0.02
Karnofsky	0.00	0.82	−0.01	0.00
Head and neck cancer	−0.05	0.43	−0.17	0.07
Breast	−0.04	0.39	−0.11	0.04
Pancreas	0.04	0.38	−0.05	0.12
Gastric	0.06	0.39	−0.07	0.18
Metastatic disease	0.03	0.49	−0.04	0.09
Grade of mucositis	−0.02	0.25	−0.07	0.02
Background pain intensity	0.01	0.34	−0.01	0.03
Mechanism of Background pain	0.05	0.00	0.01	0.07
Time to maximum BTP intensity	0.02	0.36	−0.03	0.07