Uganda: Delivering Analgesia in Rural Africa: Opioid Availability and Nurse Prescribing

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 547-551

  Jagwe, Jack ^a   Merriman, Anne ^a  

^a Hospice Africa Uganda   (Uganda)

Author keywords

affordable service; hospice; nurse and clinical officer prescribers; oral morphine; palliative care service and education; Policy; public health approach

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NURSE; NURSING EDUCATION; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRESCRIPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL AREA; UGANDA;

ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; NURSES; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RURAL POPULATION; UGANDA; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247639563     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

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