Paramedic assessment of pain in the cognitively impaired adult patient

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 20-

  Lord, Bill ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DATA BASE; DISABILITY; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SELF REPORT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 70449504461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-9-20     Document Type: Article

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