will be addressed because they severely impacted pain
self-management. Most patients in the pilot study took
rather low doses of opioid analgesics for their cancer pain,
and daily opioid intake did not increase over time. The
intervention will therefore be combined with a palliative
care consultation in which state-of-the-art medical treatment will be prescribed. Furthermore, patients’ adherence
to prescriptions and the intervention should be evaluated
more regularly in the nurse coaching component.