. 2022 Jun 6;31(5):e13628. doi: 10.1111/ecc.13628

TABLE 2.

Reasons for absence of pain intervention

Reasons mentioned ^a	Person considered by the patient as responsible for the absence of pain intervention ^b
Reasons mentioned ^a	Physician								Patient			Both physician and patient				No one
Patients	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Physician only focused on treatment of disease	X		X	X	X			X				X
Reluctance for intervention by patient						X	X		X	X	X					X		X
Reluctance to mention pain by patient	X				X									X	X
Pain intervention complicated or impossible		X	X						X							X
Unknown cause of pain		X		X			X									X
Pain inevitable part of treatment	X							X						X						X
No attention for person behind the disease			X		X
Pain with different cause, treatment elsewhere																	X		X
Regulation of pain in own hands													X

^{^a}

Patients could indicate more than one reason.

^{^b}

40% of the patients (n = 8) held only the physician responsible for the absence of pain intervention in their treatment, 15% (n = 3) held themselves responsible, and 20% (n = 4) reported a shared responsibility. The remaining 25% (n = 5) stated that no one was responsible.