Problems with measurement of the minimum clinically significant difference in acute pain in elders

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-139

  Bijur, Polly E ^a   Chang, Andrew K ^a   Esses, David ^a   John Gallagher, E ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951608863     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00988.x     Document Type: Article

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