Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 82-94 , April 2006

Enteral nutrition in intensive care: Nurses’ perceptions and bedside observations

,Accepted 1 September 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.09.001

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