Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 1 , Pages 40-48 , February 2006

Visiting adult patients in intensive care: The importance of relatives’ travel and time costs

  • Mariamma M. Thalanany

      Affiliations

    • Health Economics Group, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TU, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 1603 591107, +44 1603 593604.
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  • Miranda Mugford

      Affiliations

    • Health Economics Group, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TU, UK
    • ,
  • Christine Mitchell-Inwang

      Affiliations

    • Intensive care unit, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex

,Accepted 21 October 2005.

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PII: S0964-3397(05)00136-9

doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2005.10.004

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