Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 149-159 , March 2007

PROSPECT: evidence-based, procedure-specific postoperative pain management

  • Henrik Kehlet, MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +45 3545 4074; Fax: +45 3545 6543.
  • on behalf of the PROSPECT Working Group

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PII: S1521-6896(06)00082-6

doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2006.12.001

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 21, Issue 1 , Pages 149-159 , March 2007

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