Disease index

chronic pain in palliative care

Pain · 2016–2016

1decision
1medicine
1carried consumer input
0individual submissions

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
buprenorphine Chronic disabling pain in patients receiving palliative care, unresponsive to non-opioid analgesics. Jul 2016 Recommended input received

What the PBS pays

$183M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 1,909,959 services.

This is spend on the medicines considered for this condition, not spend on the disease. A medicine used for several conditions is counted in full under each, so figures across conditions add to more than national PBS expenditure.

MedicineGovernment benefit
buprenorphine $182.7M

Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 1 of 1 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.