Making Sense of Skin Color in Clinical Care

Clinical Nursing Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 495-516

  Everett, Janine S ^a,b   Budescu, Mia ^c   Sommers, Marilyn S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CIELAB; injury; protection; skin color; spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; POPULATION GROUPS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 84867053829     PISSN: 10547738     EISSN: 15523799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1054773812446510     Document Type: Article

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