Construction and validation of the quality of oncology nursing care scale (QONCS)

BMC Nursing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Charalambous, Andreas ^a,c   Adamakidou, Theodoula ^b  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Oncology setting; Quality nursing care; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928736454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-014-0048-4     Document Type: Article

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