Nursing Outlook
Volume 57, Issue 4 , Page 183 , July 2009

Letter to the Editor

  • Zenobia C.Y. Chan, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
  • ,
  • W.F. Lai, BS, is a PhD Candidate

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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PII: S0029-6554(09)00042-6

doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2009.03.003

Nursing Outlook
Volume 57, Issue 4 , Page 183 , July 2009