Geriatric Nursing
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Disease-specific pain measures for osteoarthritis of the knee or hip

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☆ PAO-FENG TSAI, PhD, RN, and SUNGHEE TAK, PhD, RN, are assistant professors in the College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas.

☆☆ The first author was partially supported by the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence in the College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

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doi: 10.1067/mgn.2003.24

Geriatric Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 106-109 , March 2003

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