Immediate effects of a five-minute foot massage on patients in critical care

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 77-82

  Hayes, Julie ^a   Cox, Carol ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Adult Nursing ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MASSAGE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; NURSING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; MALE; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033112489     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0964-3397(99)80003-2     Document Type: Article

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