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Trudy Dwyer1, Leonie M Williams, Kerry Mummery

  • 1Nursing and Health Studies, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. t.dwyer@cqu.edu.au

Nursing in Critical Care
|November 7, 2007
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