Multimeasure Pain Assessment in an Ethnically Diverse Group of Patients with Cancer

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 94-101

  Ramer, Lois ^a   Richardson, Jean L ^b   Cohen, Marlene Zichi ^c   Bedney, Cadena ^d   Danley, Kathleen Lackerdas ^b   Judge, Emelyn A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NURSING; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRANSCULTURAL CARE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING;

EID: 0033111294     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104365969901000202     Document Type: Article

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