Optimizing postoperative analgesia: The use of global outcome measures

Anesthesiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 533-534

  Wu, Christopher L ^a   Raja, Srinivasa N ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MOBILIZATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL STRESS;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036730606     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200209000-00002     Document Type: Short Survey

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