Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 108-121 , April 2008

ICU patients’ recall of emotional reactions in the trajectory from falling critically ill to hospital discharge: Follow-ups after 3 and 12 months

  • Lennart Löf

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Örebro University Hospital, Sweden
    • Department of Clinical Medicine, Örebro University, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Örebro University Hospital, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden. Tel.: +46 19 602 23 62; fax: +46 19 12 74 79.
    • ,
  • Lars Berggren

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Örebro University Hospital, Sweden
    • Department of Clinical Medicine, Örebro University, Sweden
    • ,
  • Gerd Ahlström

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden
    • School of Health Sciences, Jönköping, Sweden

,Accepted 3 August 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2007.08.001

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 108-121 , April 2008

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