Patient satisfaction: How to get it and how to keep it

Nursing Management

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 26-32

  Squires, Sharon ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 84860307825     PISSN: 07446314     EISSN: 15388670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NUMA.0000413094.39091.08     Document Type: Article

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