Nursing Outlook
Volume 53, Issue 2 , Pages 73-78 , March 2005

Participant-centered adaptations in caregiver trials: Strategies for managing confounds

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 This article was written with support from National Institute of Nursing Research grant 5 RO1 NR008285.

PII: S0029-6554(05)00020-5

doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2004.05.005

Nursing Outlook
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