An audit review of end-of-life care for inpatients with diabetes

Journal of Diabetes Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 154-159

  Hindson, Debbie ^a   Colliety, Pat ^a   Shawe, Jill ^b   Williams, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Capillary blood glucose monitoring; End of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861956980     PISSN: 13681109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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