A model of nursing as a complex adaptive system

Nursing Outlook

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Chaffee, Mary W ^a   McNeill, Margaret M ^a  

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EID: 35248812992     PISSN: 00296554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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