Nursing Outlook
Volume 54, Issue 4 , Pages 173-182 , July 2006

Overview of the John A. Hartford Foundation Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Initiative

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 Significant portions of this article, as well as the empirical data used in the other articles in this Special Issue of Nursing Outlook, are derived from an interim evaluation report on this Initiative: Huba GJ, Quach LB, Melchior LA (2005). Interim conclusions from the cross-cutting evaluation of the Hartford Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence. Contributors to this evaluation at The Measurement Group include G. J. Huba, PhD, Lisa A. Melchior, PhD, and Le B. Quach, MPH, with the assistance of Emmeline Chuang, BA, Fred Loya, BA, Maya Melczer, BA, and Jennifer Ricards, BA.

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doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2006.05.008

Nursing Outlook
Volume 54, Issue 4 , Pages 173-182 , July 2006

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