The inpatient psychiatric unit as both a safe and unsafe place: Implications for absconding
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1445-8330
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0349.2012.00873.x