Terminally ill patients commonly experience substantial pain. Unresolved pain has been cited as evidence that end-of-life care is of poor quality. However, the data on which that conclusion is based are limited. We aimed to provide additional data on the experience of pain in such patients.
Department of Clinical Bioethics, Warren G Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. sweiss@nih.gov
