Validation of the Decisional Conflict Scale for Evaluating Advance Care Decision Conflict in Community-dwelling Older Adults
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[Validation of a Spanish version of the Decisional Conflict scale].
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Nursing Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1976-1317
DOI: 10.1016/j.anr.2017.11.004