Nursing Outlook
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Pages 300-304 , November 2005

Quality of care in nursing home organizations: Establishing a health services research agenda

  • Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN (FAAN)

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor of Sociology and Nursing, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 3333 California Street, Suite 455, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118.

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PII: S0029-6554(05)00204-6

doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2005.10.002

Nursing Outlook
Volume 53, Issue 6 , Pages 300-304 , November 2005

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