Audit of postoperative pain control: Influence of a dedicated acute pain nurse

Anaesthesia

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1093-1096

  Coleman, S A ^a   Booker Milburn, J ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pain; Postoperative, audit

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ARTICLE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NAUSEA; NURSE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; STAFF TRAINING;

EID: 0030460831     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1996.tb15039.x     Document Type: Article

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