Nurses should be empowered to be proactively involved in family decision meetings on intensive care unit patient care decisions
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عنوان ژورنال: Evidence Based Nursing
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1367-6539,1468-9618
DOI: 10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103089