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Intensive care unit nurses’ perceptions of the obstacles to the end of life care in Saudi Arabia

Zakaria A. Mani and Mahmoud A. Ibrahim
Saudi Medical Journal July 2017, 38 (7) 715-720; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.7.18454
Zakaria A. Mani
From the Department of Nursing Education (Mani), the Emergency and Crises Management Centre (Mani), Al-Amal Hospital, Disaster and Emergency Nursing (Mani), Emergency and Crises Management Centre, and the Intensive Care Unit (Ibrahim), King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mahmoud A. Ibrahim
From the Department of Nursing Education (Mani), the Emergency and Crises Management Centre (Mani), Al-Amal Hospital, Disaster and Emergency Nursing (Mani), Emergency and Crises Management Centre, and the Intensive Care Unit (Ibrahim), King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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