Physician Contacts and Their Influence on the Appropriateness of Pain Medication in Nursing Home Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 834-838

  Flaig, Tanja Maria ^a   Budnick, Andrea ^a   Kuhnert, Ronny ^a   Kreutz, Reinhold ^a   Dräger, Dagmar ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

nursing home; nursing home residents; pain medication; Physicians; primary care physicians; specialists

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERNIST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROLOGIST; NURSING HOME PERSONNEL; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PROGRAM APPROPRIATENESS; PSYCHIATRIST; RATING SCALE; ANALGESIA; INTERVIEW; NURSING HOME; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE;

EID: 84977589717     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2016.05.014     Document Type: Article

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