Italy: patients receiving pain management in palliative care hospices 2015-2017
The statistic illustrates the share of patients receiving pain management in palliative care hospices in Italy from 2015 to 2017. According to the figure, the use of pain management medications in palliative care increased over the period: while in 2015 62 percent of patients received this type of treatment, by 2017 the figure had increased to 64 percent of patients.