Editorial: Patients: Passive subjects or active participants in reducing the spread of infection?

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 17-18, 2014, Pages 2385-2386

  Wyer, Mary ^a   Iedema, Rick ^a   Hor, Su Yin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84904765587     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jocn.12464     Document Type: Editorial

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