Continuous quality improvement in postoperative pain management - Benchmarking postoperative pain

Acute Pain

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-44

  Meissner, Winfried ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33644628650     PISSN: 13660071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acpain.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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