Patient safety: Assessing nurses' perception and developing an improvement plan

Life Science Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 53-64

  Ahmed, Neamatallah Goma ^a   Adam, Samia Mohamed ^a   Al Moniem, Iman Ibrahim Abd ^a  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Nurse; Patient; Safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957786583     PISSN: 10978135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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