Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 33-43 , February 2010

More than nothing: The lived experience of tracheostomy while acutely ill

,Accepted 23 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2009.09.004

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 1 , Pages 33-43 , February 2010

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