Pain Assessment Among Non-Communicating Intellectually Disabled People Described by Nursing Staff
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Pain Assessment Among Non-Communicating Intellectually Disabled People Described by Nursing Staff
The purpose of this study was to describe pain assessment among non-communicating intellectually disabled people living in long term care described by nursing staff. The target group of the study consisted of the nursing staff working at seven mental retardation units in different parts of Finland. The data were collected during spring 2008 by a semi-structured questionnaire (Non-communicating ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Open Nursing Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1874-4346
DOI: 10.2174/1874434601004010055