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Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2013 May 31;46(6):10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.02.011. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2013.02.011

Table 1.

Interview Guide

    1. On a scale of 0–10 with 10 being the best possible situation, how would you rate your
      personal knowledge and skills related to pain management by the end of your service
      with hospice?

Prompt: Can you share an example of why you gave yourself this rating? A time when you feel
you had sufficient knowledge, or perhaps a situation when you did not know something that you
wish you had known?

    2. On a scale of 0–10 with 10 being the best possible situation, how would you rate your
      understanding and comfort with your patient’s pain medications by the end of your
      service with hospice?

Prompt: Which medications did you feel made you the most comfortable and which the least
comfortable?

    3. On a scale of 0–10 with 10 being the best possible situation, how would you rate your
      overall satisfaction with the hospice team’s pain management of your patient by the end
      of your service with hospice?

Prompt: Can you share an example of how the hospice team focused on your loved ones pain?

4. Do you have any other thoughts or suggestions that might help us improve this
experience for hospice patients or caregivers?

5. On a scale where 0 is not at all controlled and 10 is almost perfectly controlled, overall,
did your loved one’s pain appear to be controlled?

Prompt: Can you share a time when your loved ones pain was out of control, what was that like
and how did it get resolved?

6. On a scale where 0 is not at all and 10 is almost perfectly at peace, overall, did your loved
one appear to be at peace with dying?

Prompt: Was there anything in particular that led you to believe they were or not at peace?

7. On a scale where 0 is not at all and 10 is almost perfect, overall, did your loved one
appear to keep his/her dignity and self-respect?

Prompt: Can you give an example?

8. On a scale where 0 is terrible and 10 is almost perfect, overall, how would you rate your
loved one’s quality of death?

Prompt: What observations or examples of how things went lead you to feel this way?