Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 1 , Pages 49-55 , February 2006

Mothers’ recollections of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: Associations with psychopathology and views on follow up

,Accepted 18 April 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.04.002

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 1 , Pages 49-55 , February 2006

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