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Volume 334:59 January 4, 1996 Number 1
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Assessment of Patients' Pain

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To the Editor: Attitudes toward analgesic therapy were strongly influenced by efforts in the 1930s to "solve the problem of drug addiction." An influential paper published in 1941 stated, "The use of narcotics in terminal cancer is to be condemned if it can possibly be avoided."1 Undertreatment of pain has been repeatedly documented.2

One hypothesis is that members of the medical staff do not know the intensity of pain the patient is experiencing and would more adequately treat it if they knew.3,4 To test this hypothesis, we interviewed 48 patients admitted in pain (from cancer in 18 patients, from sickle . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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