Published in Clin Nurse Spec on October 09, 2014
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Estimating the need for hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgeons in the USA. HPB (Oxford) (2014) 0.86
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Influence of renal function on the use of guideline-recommended therapies for patients with heart failure. Am J Cardiol (2010) 0.84
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Investigating pain in heart failure patients: the pain assessment, incidence, and nature in heart failure (PAIN-HF) study. J Card Fail (2012) 0.84
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Differences in the Surgical Treatment of Lower Back Pain Among Spine Surgeons in the United States. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) (2016) 0.83
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Implementing critical pathways and a multidisciplinary team approach to cardiovascular disease management. Am J Cardiol (2008) 0.83
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Sanguineous normothermic machine perfusion improves hemodynamics and biliary epithelial regeneration in donation after cardiac death porcine livers. Liver Transpl (2014) 0.82
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Cardiac tamponade after removal of temporary pacer wires. Am J Crit Care (2012) 0.80
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Factors Related to Healthy Diet and Physical Activity in Hospital-Based Clinical Nurses. Online J Issues Nurs (2014) 0.80
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The 'Parent Shift' program: incentives for nurses, rewards for nursing teams. Nurs Econ (2008) 0.79
Factors associated with long hospital length of stay in patients receiving warfarin after cardiac surgery. J Cardiovasc Nurs (2009) 0.79
Perceptions of reasons call lights are activated pre- and postintervention to decrease call light use. J Nurs Care Qual (2010) 0.79
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