A Lovely Idea: Forming an ASRA Acute Postoperative Pain (AcutePOP) Database

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 291-293

  Liu, Spencer S ^a   Warren, Daniel T ^a   Wu, Christopher L ^b   Ballantyne, Jane C ^c   Ginsberg, Brian ^d   Rathmell, James P ^e   Rosenquist, Richard W ^f   Viscusi, Eugene R ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; DATABASES; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 33745937756     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2006.05.006     Document Type: Editorial

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