Pain Management Nursing
Volume 6, Issue 3 , Pages 91-104 , September 2005

Developing and Testing a Questionnaire to Assess the Quality of Pain Management in Acute Care in Sweden

  • Elisabeth Hansson, MSc, RN, RNT

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nursing, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to Elisabeth Hansson, Division of Nursing, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, P.O. Box 157, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Bengt Fridlund, PhD, RNAN, RNT

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nursing, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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  • Inger Hallström, PhD, RSCN

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nursing, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    • The Vardal Institute, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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 The Division of Nursing, Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, and Lund University Hospital provided financial support.

PII: S1524-9042(05)00044-5

doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2005.06.002

Pain Management Nursing
Volume 6, Issue 3 , Pages 91-104 , September 2005

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