Pain in elderly people with severe dementia: A systematic review of behavioural pain assessment tools

BACKGROUND: Pain is a common and major problem among nursing home residents. The prevalence of pain in elderly nursing home people is 40–80%, showing that they are at great risk of experiencing pain. Since assessment of pain is an important step towards the treatment of pain, there is a need for man...

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Autores principales: Zwakhalen, Sandra MG, Hamers, Jan PH, Abu-Saad, Huda Huijer, Berger, Martijn PF
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1397844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16441889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-6-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1397844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16441889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-6-3

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