Psychophysical evaluation of the descriptors of pain in the postoperative Evaluación psicofísica de los descriptores de dolor en el post-operatorio Avaliação psicofísica de descritores de dor no pós-operatório

This experimental study aimed to evaluate 20 descriptors of the post-operative pain considering the adequate level of each in describing it. A total of 48 post-operated patients, age between 14 and 70 years old, 60.4% male, participated in the experiment. They judged the descriptors through the Magn...

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Main Authors: Lilian Varanda Pereira, Fátima Aparecida Emm Faleiros Sousa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2007-06-01
Series:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692007000300017