Acute Pain
Volume 9, Issue 1 , Pages 1-6 , March 2007

Non-Scandinavian and Scandinavian women's expectations and experiences of acute pain

  • Mia Wallin

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Dragsg. 7, SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden. Tel.: +46 11 36 35 03; fax: +46 11 12 54 48.
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  • Ragnhild Raak

Received 19 August 2006 ,Revised 13 November 2006 ,Accepted 20 November 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2006.11.003

Acute Pain
Volume 9, Issue 1 , Pages 1-6 , March 2007

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