Hospitalized patients quantify verbal pain intensity descriptors: methodological issues and values for 26 descriptors
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عنوان ژورنال: Pain
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0304-3959,1872-6623
DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001716