Pain in patients with dementia: A review of pain assessment and treatment challenges

Norsk Epidemiologi

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 243-251

  Husebo, Bettina S ^a,b   Achterberg, Wilco P ^c   Lobbezoo, Frank ^d,e   Kunz, Miriam ^f   Lautenbacher, Stefan ^f   Kappesser, Judith ^g   Tudose, Catalina ^h   Strand, Liv Inger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b University Hospital   (Norway)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^g JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FENTANYL; HYPNOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DEMENTIA; DRUG FATALITY; FACE PAIN; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SKIN PAIN; THORAX PAIN; TOOTH PAIN; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 84870908925     PISSN: 08032491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5324/nje.v22i2.1572     Document Type: Article

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