A review of termination of pregnancy: Prevalent health care professional attitudes and ways of influencing them

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1683-1688

  Lipp, Allyson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Induced abortion; Midwifery; Nursing; Termination of pregnancy; Therapeutic abortion

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; NURSE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; NURSES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 44949206393     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.02205.x     Document Type: Review

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