Patient pain status, severity, and management at the first follow-up Neno Palliative Care Program (NPCP) encounter (May through October 2012).

*African POS = African Palliative Care Association African Palliative Outcome Scale.§Pain measured using the African POS, which scores pain severity in 1-point increments from 0 to 5 on a 6-point Likert scale. Harding R, Selman L, Agupio G, Dinat N, Downing J, et al. (2010) Validation of a core outcome measure for palliative care in Africa: the APCA African Palliative Outcome Scale. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 8∶10. doi:10.1186/1477-7525-8-10.¶SE = standard error.•Documented follow-up pain assessment at first return encounter is missing for 9 patients.#Indicated by African POS = 0.**Indicated by African POS>0.§§Indicated by African POS≥3.¶¶For the 21 patients with documented pain at the first follow-up NPCP encounter.••Documented HIV sero-status is missing for 1 patient.##Includes 2 patients without documented analgesia prescription with mean African POS pain score of 2.Patient pain status, severity, and management at the first follow-up Neno Palliative Care Program (NPCP) encounter (May through October 2012).