Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 15-22 , February 2007

Critical care outreach: The need for effective decision-making in clinical practice (Part 1)

  • Helen C. Hancock

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Integrated Health Care Research, School for Health, Durham University, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 191 3340378; fax: +44 191 3340374.
  • ,
  • Lesley Durham

      Affiliations

    • City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

,Accepted 12 June 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2006.06.003

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 15-22 , February 2007