title: [Terminal patients: their epidemiology and the problems of care noted by nurses in Calabrian hospitals. The Cantazaro Nurses' Cultural Association and the Ospedale di Matera working group].
abstract: Results of three surveys made by Associazione Culturale degli Infermieri di Catanzaro and by a group of nurses of the Matera Hospital are published. Two surveys focus on epidemiology of pain in the hospital (postoperative pain and colic, methastasis and infarction pain) and the third one on terminal patients in the hospital, specifically on patients problems and problems encountered by nurses in their care, according to nurses' perception. The discussion focuses more on methodological problems related to the pilot trial of forms used for data collection and on methodological problems related to the sample selection than on results of the research itself.
mesh_terms: D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
vernacular_title: I pazienti terminali: epidemiologia e problemi assistenziali rilevati dagli infermieri in alcuni ospedali calabresi. Associazione Culturale Infermieri di Catanzaro e Gruppo di lavoro Ospedale di Matera.