Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Patient, Right Time, and Right Route: How Do We Select the Right Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Device?

Pain Management Nursing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 140-145

  Ladak, Salima S J ^a   Chan, Vincent W S ^a   Easty, Tony ^a   Chagpar, Anjum ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSING; NURSING DISCIPLINE; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD;

ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; PAIN; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SPECIALTIES, NURSING;

EID: 36148995512     PISSN: 15249042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmn.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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