Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 6 , Pages 355-361 , December 2006

Developing a care program to better know the chronically critically ill

  • Marie-José Roulin

      Affiliations

    • Nursing Directorate, Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Geneva, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +41 22 3729046; fax: +41 22 3729105.
    • ,
  • Rebecca Spirig

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    • Department of Clinical Nursing, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

,Accepted 14 February 2006.

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PII: S0964-3397(06)00021-8

doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2006.02.004

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 6 , Pages 355-361 , December 2006

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