Pain Management Nursing
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 142-148 , September 2009

Older Adults' Pain Descriptions

  • Deborah Dillon McDonald, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Deborah Dillon McDonald; University of Connecticut, 231 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT 06269-2026

Received 19 May 2008 ,Revised 15 August 2008 ,Accepted 23 October 2008.

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 The study was part of a larger study supported by grant no. 5 R21NR009848-02 from the National Institute of Nursing Research.

PII: S1524-9042(08)00152-5

doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2008.09.004

Pain Management Nursing
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 142-148 , September 2009