Acute Pain
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 155-159 , December 2006

The activity of an acute pain service in a teaching hospital: Five years experience

  • Michal Barak

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Rambam Medical Center, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institution of Technology, P.O. Box 9602, Haifa 31096, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 4 8542241; fax: +972 4 8542961.
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  • Elli Poppa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Rambam Medical Center, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institution of Technology, P.O. Box 9602, Haifa 31096, Israel
    • ,
  • Alex Tansky

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
    • ,
  • Benjamin Drenger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Hadassa Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Received 20 May 2006 ,Revised 9 August 2006 ,Accepted 15 August 2006.

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PII: S1366-0071(06)00116-1

doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2006.08.040

Acute Pain
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 155-159 , December 2006

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