Digital pens and pain diaries in palliative home health care: Professional caregivers' experiences

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 287-296

  Lind, Leili ^a   Karlsson, Daniel ^a   Fridlund, Bengt ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Digital pens; Home care services; Hospital based; Internet; Mobile phones; Pain assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WORK EXPERIENCE; CAREGIVER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; INSTRUMENTATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; TELEMEDICINE;

CAREGIVERS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; TELEMEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80051876871     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: 14645246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230701785381     Document Type: Article

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