Assessing the pain of people with a learning disability.
This article highlights the inequalities in health-care provision experienced by people with a learning disability, particularly the issue of pain and the barriers people with a learning disability face when trying to have their pain properly recognized and managed. The authors describe the process...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Nursing Vol. 18; no. 7; pp. 420 - 424 |
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| Formato: | case study pictorial questionnaire/scale Journal Article |
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Mark Allen Holdings Limited
4/9/2009
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