title: Palliative care: clinical approach to chronic pain and intestinal obstruction.
abstract: Many patients with terminal cancer receive inadequate treatment for pain and other symptoms. Yet, using oral medications in a simple stepwise approach, we should be able to control pain in up to 80% of patients.
authors.affiliation: University of Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hanks
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D059408:Pain Management; D010166:Palliative Care; D013727:Terminal Care