Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 25, Issue 3 , Pages 155-162 , June 2009

To have and to hold nutritional control: Balancing between individual and routine care: A grounded theory study

  • Mona Wentzel Persenius

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Karlstad University, SE-651 88 Karlstad, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 54 7002291; fax: +46 54 836996.
    • ,
  • Bodil Wilde-Larsson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Karlstad University, SE-651 88 Karlstad, Sweden
    • Department of Nursing, Hedmark University College, Norway
    • Tel.: +46 54 7002486; fax: +46 54 836996.
    • ,
  • Marie Louise Hall-Lord

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Karlstad University, SE-651 88 Karlstad, Sweden
    • Department of Nursing, Gjøvik University College, Norway
    • Tel.: +46 54 7002420; fax: +46 54 836996.

,Accepted 17 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2009.03.002

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 25, Issue 3 , Pages 155-162 , June 2009

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