Effective Pain Management in Patients with Dementia: Benefits Beyond Pain?

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 863-871

  Flo, Elisabeth ^a   Gulla, Christine ^a   Husebo, Bettina S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESTLESSNESS; SLEEP DISORDER; THERAPY EFFECT; VOCALIZATION; AGED; ELDERLY CARE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION;

ANALGESIC AGENT;

AGED; ANALGESICS; DEMENTIA; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84911972900     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40266-014-0222-0     Document Type: Article

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