Management of acute postoperative pain: Still a long way to go!
PainPublished 14 May 2008
Harald Breivik, Audun Stubhaug
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The APS are responsible for ongoing educational programmes for all persons involved in the care of surgical patients and they supervise and audit monitoring of acute pain and the effects of pain relief on patients’ charts and hospital records, which make pain visible.
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University of Oslo, Division of Anesthesiology and Intenswive Care Medicine, Rikshospitalet, 0027 Oslo, Norway *Corresponding author: Tel.: +47 23073691; fax: +47 23073690. E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Submitted and accepted April 17, 2008.
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