Quality of care by neonatal nurse practitioners: A review of the Ashington experiment

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Hall, D ^b   Wilkinson, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; EXPERIMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEWBORN CARE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSE TRAINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REVIEW;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ENGLAND; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEONATAL NURSING; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSING AUDIT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 17844404004     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2004.055996     Document Type: Review

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