Investigative first steps: Appropriate identification and ethical review of research and quality improvement

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Cosco, Theodore D ^a,b   Knopp, Alana ^b   Milke, Doris L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CapitalCare ^*

^c Research Facilitation Committee

Author keywords

Ethics review; Method identification; Nursing; Quality improvement; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649115024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10899758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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