From hospital to hospice and back again: the management of chronic cancer pain.
The National Hospice Study of 1986 has not only revealed that hospices do a better job of meeting pain-control goals than do hospitals, but also elucidated a number of important differences in hospice and hospital care that account for this finding.
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Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
D000700:Analgesics / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D006738:Hospices; D006801:Humans; D009020:Morphine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*
D000700:Analgesics; D009020:Morphine