Pain Management Nursing
Volume 11, Issue 2 , Pages 99-107 , June 2010

Interference of Postoperative Pain on Women's Daily Life after Early Discharge from Cardiac Surgery

  • Marit Leegaard, PhD, CRNA, RN

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Nursing, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Marit Leegaard, PhD, CRNA, RN, Faculty of Nursing, Oslo University College, Post box 4 St. Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo, Norway.
    • ,
  • Tone Rustøen, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Nursing, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway
    • Center for Shared Decision Making and Nursing Research, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
    • ,
  • May Solveig Fagermoen, PhD, MA, RN

      Affiliations

    • Research Center, Aker University Hospital, and Institute of Nursing and Health Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Received 21 April 2008 ,Revised 23 February 2009 ,Accepted 19 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2009.04.001

Pain Management Nursing
Volume 11, Issue 2 , Pages 99-107 , June 2010

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