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Prevalence of patients subjected to constraint in Norwegian nursing homes

✍ Scribed by Øyvind Kirkevold; Knut Engedal

Book ID
111187021
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
100 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
0283-9318

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