Acute Pain
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 73-81 , June 2008

Documentation of postoperative pain by nurses in surgical wards

  • Maysoon S. Abdalrahim

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Nursing, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Faculty of Nursing, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. Tel.: +9626 5355000; fax: +9626 5355511.
    • ,
  • Sawsan A. Majali

      Affiliations

    • Dar Al Hekma College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
    • ,
  • Ingegerd Bergbom

      Affiliations

    • The Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University, Faculty of Health and Caring Sciences, Institute of Nursing, Box 457, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
    • Tel.: +46 31 773 6070; fax: +46 31 773 6050.

Received 3 September 2007 ,Revised 27 March 2008 ,Accepted 18 April 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2008.04.001

Acute Pain
Volume 10, Issue 2 , Pages 73-81 , June 2008

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