2.5. Inclusion Criteria
Patients will be included if they:
• have cancer-related pain >3 (NRS 0 = no pain to 10 =
worst pain imaginable),
• will be discharged from hospital and will self-manage
their pain after discharge,
• have an expected life expectancy of ≥ 3 months,
• understand, read and write German,
• and have access to a telephone.
2.6. Exclusion Criteria
Patients will be excluded if their treating physicians
perceive that they have severe cognitive deficits. Attrition is expected to occur mostly because of deterioration
of the patients’ health status. Therefore, data that were
collected before hospitalization will be included in the
analysis unless patients explicitly withdraw their consent.