Emergency care for people with learning disabilities: What all nurses and midwives need to know

Accident and Emergency Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 224-231

  Brown, Michael ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access; Emergency; Health needs; Learning disabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844578679     PISSN: 09652302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aaen.2005.06.001     Document Type: Article

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