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Nursing diagnoses among kidney transplant recipients: evidence from clinical practice

Stephani Amanda Lukasewicz Ferreira1, Isabel Cristina Echer, Amália de Fátima Lucena

  • 1Integrated Multidisciplinary Residency Program, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

International Journal of Nursing Knowledge
|October 12, 2013
PubMed
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Keywords:
Kidney transplantnursing carenursing diagnosis

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