Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 117-123 , January 2009

Good grief: Staff responses to childbearing loss

,Accepted 28 July 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2008.07.005

Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 117-123 , January 2009