title: A source of comfort.
abstract: Recent statistics from the Patients Association show 17 per cent of patients raised poor pain relief as a concern in calls to its helpline. In the third of our four-part series examining the four strands of fundamental care, we look at how competing demands can affect effective pain relief and how some organisations have made improvements.
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dean
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D010146:Pain / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D011787:Quality of Health Care