Barriers to clinical decision-making in nurses in Australia

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 8-13

  Hoffman, Kerry ^a   Duffield, Christine ^a   Donoghue, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; Correlational study; Educational level; Participative decision making; Role values

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749094844     PISSN: 08130531     EISSN: 14474328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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