Minimum nurse staffing ratios for nursing homes

Nursing Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Ning Jackie ^a   Unruh, Lynn ^a   Liu, Rong ^b   Wan, Thomas T H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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