Pain in Frail, Elderly Women after Surgery

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-26

  Zalon, Margarete Lieb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Pain; Surgery; Women

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROL; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; WOMEN;

EID: 0031090823     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1997.tb01135.x     Document Type: Article

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