Functional status after childbirth: A review of the literature

Clinical Nursing Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-211

  Aktan, Nadine M ^a  

^a WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional status after childbirth; Inventory of functional atatus after childbirth; Postpartum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEWBORN; OBSTETRICAL NURSING; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBSTETRICAL NURSING; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 34547357256     PISSN: 10547738     EISSN: 15523799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1054773807303075     Document Type: Article

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