Postoperative patient management - how can we make progress?

Acute Pain

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 32-44

  Wulf, Hinnerk ^a   Schug, Stephan A ^b   Allvin, Renée ^c   Kehlet, Henrik ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c ÖREBRO MEDICAL CENTRE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

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EID: 0003097979     PISSN: 13660071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1366-0071(98)80026-0     Document Type: Article

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