Acute Pain
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 21-26 , May 2005

Demographic disparities in the prescription of patient-controlled analgesia for postoperative pain

  • Yenna Salamonson

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, College of Social and Health Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Campbelltown Campus, Building 7, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South, DC 1797, NSW, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 4620 3322; fax: +61 2 4625 4252.
    • ,
  • Bronwyn Everett

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Family and Community Health, College of Social and Health Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, Building 3, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South, DC 1797, NSW, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 2 9772 6366; fax: +61 2 9773 0998.

Received 16 September 2004 ,Accepted 18 November 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2004.11.001

Acute Pain
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 21-26 , May 2005

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