Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 5 , Pages 298-303 , October 2007

Management of pain in cardiac surgery ICU patients: Have we improved over time?

,Accepted 4 March 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2007.03.002

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
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