Pain in Alzheimer's disease: Nursing assistants' and patients' evaluations

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-158

  Scherder, Erik ^a   Van Manen, Femke ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PC Hooft   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Nursing assistants; Pain; Pain assessment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; HUMANS; MENTAL COMPETENCY; NURSING STAFF; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SELF CONCEPT; WALKING;

EID: 25844481977     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2005.03577.x     Document Type: Article

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