Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 6 , Pages 366-374 , December 2008

Access to intensive care units: A survey in North-East Italy

  • Antonio Boscolo Anzoletti

      Affiliations

    • Intensive Care, Chioggia Hospital (Venice)-ULSS 14, Italy
    • ,
  • Alessandra Buja

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padua, Italy
    • ,
  • Valeria Bortolusso

      Affiliations

    • Surgical Ward, Veneto Institute of Oncology, Padua, Italy
    • ,
  • Alessandra Zampieron

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Padua University Hospital, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Via Montello 2/2, 35010 Cadoneghe (PD), Italy. Tel.: +39 049 8211255; fax: +39 0498218341.

,Accepted 12 April 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2008.04.004

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 24, Issue 6 , Pages 366-374 , December 2008

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