Heart Failure Symptom Assessment and Management
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Symptom clusters of heart failure.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0889-4655
DOI: 10.1097/jcn.0b013e3181bf93a0