Establishing nurses' preferences in wound assessment: A concept evaluation

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 444-450

  Maylor, Miles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consensus; Objectivity; Personality preferences; Reliability; Subjectivity; Wound assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INJURY; NOMENCLATURE; NURSE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NURSES; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY; WALES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33645057711     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2006.01310.x     Document Type: Article

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