Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 25, Issue 3 , Pages 111-119 , June 2009

Close relatives’ experiences of caring and of the physical environment when a loved one dies in an ICU

,Accepted 11 November 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2008.11.002

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 25, Issue 3 , Pages 111-119 , June 2009

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