Patients with Advanced Dementia: How Do We Know If They are in Pain?

Geriatric Nursing

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 226-228

  Monroe, Todd B ^a   Mion, Lorraine C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARACETAMOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEMENTIA; FEMUR FRACTURE; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACETAMINOPHEN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84861681886     PISSN: 01974572     EISSN: 15283984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2012.03.008     Document Type: Article

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