Challenges in pain assessment in cognitively intact and cognitively impaired older adults with cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 37, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2010, Pages 7-16

  Curtiss, Carol P ^a,b  

^a Curtiss Consulting   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT;

AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 78649732567     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/10.ONF.S1.7-16     Document Type: Article

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