Who's asking? Patients may under-report postoperative pain scores to nurses (or over-report to surgeons) following surgery of the female reproductive tract

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 279, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 771-774

  Sills, Eric Scott ^a   Genton, Marc G ^c   Walsh, Anthony P H ^a,b   Wehbe, Salim A ^d  

^a Sims International Fertility Clinic   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discordance; Nurse; Post operative pain; Surgeon; Visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 63349109521     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-009-0938-y     Document Type: Article

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