Improving the health and wellness of persons with disabilities: A call to action too important for nursing to ignore

Nursing Outlook

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Smeltzer, Suzanne C ^a  

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EID: 34547209683     PISSN: 00296554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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