Nurse directed pre-admission clinics

Ambulatory Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 97-100

  Green, Ann Marie ^a  

^a CAMPBELLTOWN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinic; Nurse directed; Pre admission

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION;

EID: 0034111533     PISSN: 09666532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6532(99)00058-X     Document Type: Article

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