Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 4 , Pages 206-215 , August 2007

The meaning of posttraumatic stress-reactions following critical illness or injury and intensive care treatment

  • Ingrid Corrigan

      Affiliations

    • Intensive Care Unit, Division of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Lund University Hospital, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 46 171019/248003.
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  • Karin A.M. Samuelson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nursing, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, P.O. Box 157, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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  • Bengt Fridlund

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Växjö University, SE-351 95 Växjö, Sweden
    • ,
  • Bibbi Thomé

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nursing, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, P.O. Box 157, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden

,Accepted 31 January 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2007.01.004

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 23, Issue 4 , Pages 206-215 , August 2007

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