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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Nurs. 2021 May-Jun;44(3):E170–E180. doi: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000000851

Table 2.

The Four Potential Post-craniotomy Pain Management Groups

Routine Pain Management Complex Pain Management
Pain-as-non-salient Group 1
Simply getting pain pills
Conferring with staff
Waiting the pain out
Having no pain at all
Pain-as-salient Group 2
Definitely getting pain pills
Staying on top of the pain
Group 3
Not staying on top of the pain
Having everything done to help me