Pain Management Nursing
Volume 10, Issue 4 , Pages 206-219 , December 2009

Measuring Nursing Advocacy in Procedural Pain Care—Development and Validation of an Instrument

Received 27 December 2007 ,Revised 8 February 2008 ,Accepted 9 February 2008.

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