The lived experience of persons with lower extremity amputation

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 15-16, 2010, Pages 2152-2161

  Liu, Fen ^a   Williams, Rhonda M ^b   Liu, Hsueh Erh ^c   Chien, Nai Hui ^d  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Lived experience; Lower extremity amputation; Nurses; Nursing; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEG; MUTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TAIWAN; PSYCHOLOGY; SURGERY;

AMPUTATION; HUMANS; LEG; MUTATION; TAIWAN;

EID: 77955945560     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03256.x     Document Type: Article

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