Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 156-161 , June 2007

Patient empowerment: Does it still occur in the ICU?

,Accepted 8 March 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2006.03.002

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 156-161 , June 2007

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