Flow situations during everyday practice in a medical hospital ward. Results from a study based on experience sampling method

BMC Nursing

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bringsén, Åsa ^a,b   Ejlertsson, Göran ^a   Andersson, Ingemar H ^a  

^a KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 79251632685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6955-10-3     Document Type: Article

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