Over the course of a life-threatening disease, a person's suffering can increase (1, 2).
Particularly at the end of life, suffering tends to be widespread, manifesting itself at different …

The essential mandate of medicine is the relief of suffering. However, the quest for an
integrated model towards a conceptualization of suffering is still ongoing and empirical …

Background: The prevention and relief of suffering in palliative care are critical to the well-
being and quality of life of patients and families facing life-threatening diseases. Many tools …

Within the medical literature, the terms" suffering" and" pain" are often used interchangeably.
This leads to the reduction of suffering in its fullest sense to that of one of its component parts …

Purpose The alleviation of suffering is a central goal of palliative care, but little research has
addressed the construct of suffering as a global experience of the whole person. We …

CONTEXT: Existential and spiritual concerns in relation to palliative end-of-life care have
received increasing attention over the past decade. OBJECTIVES: To review the literature …

DEFINING SUFFERING disease (8, 9, 15). The following discussion proposes a clinically
relevant definition of suffering. Then, based on a review of the existing data on pain and …

Objective Suffering frequently occurs in the context of chronic and progressive medical
illnesses and emerges with great intensity at end‐of‐life. A review of the literature on …

The words “pain” and “suffering” are so often used together in clinical practice they often
seem to merge into a single concept,“pain and suffering.” Writing in the early 1980s, Eric …

Objective Nonphysical suffering is emotional, psychological, existential, spiritual, and/or
social in nature. While palliative care is a discipline dedicated to the prevention and relief of …