Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 4 , Pages 211-217 , August 2008

Reliability of the Sedation-Agitation Scale between nurses and doctors

  • Michelle C. Ryder-Lewis

      Affiliations

    • Work Health Solutions Ltd., P.O. Box 48104, Silverstream 5019, Wellington, New Zealand
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +64 4 5297375; fax: +64 4 5297375.
    • ,
  • Katherine M. Nelson

      Affiliations

    • Senior Lecturer Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
    • Tel.: +64 4 463 6138; fax: +64 4 463 5442.

,Accepted 20 November 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2007.11.004

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
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