Learning disabilities. Learning-disabled people's experience of general hospitals.
As more people with learning disability move from long-stay hospitals into the community, contact with general hospital services will increase. Yet, how people with learning disability experience general hospital settings has remained a largely unresearched area. Despite the Department of Health's (...
| Published in: | British Journal of Nursing Vol. 7; no. 8; pp. 470 - 478 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Mark Allen Holdings Limited
4/23/98
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