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Pain control in hospitalized postsurgical patients
Medsurg Nursing : Official Journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
|October 1, 1995
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to describe the pain experience of 100 randomly selected postsurgical patients, identify discrepancies between physician, nurse, and patient reports of pain intensity, and characterize the documentation of patients' pain experiences within the hospital record.