Activity in the Chronically Critically Ill
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An emerging population: the chronically critically ill.
Pediatric Health Care. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0730-4625
DOI: 10.1097/00003465-200511000-00011