End-of-Life Care-Still Wanting

摘要

Depression. Confusion. Pain. Some of the most troubling end-of-life symptoms have been reported with growing frequency in recent years, despite a generation of medical work meant to ease the last days of the dying. A landmark 1997 study first detailed widespread suffering and demanded better care for dying patients. But reports of pain and other symptoms have only become more pervasive since then, according to a recent study led by a graduate student at Pardee RAND.