Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 7 , Pages 697-701 , October 2010

The relationship between nursing students’ mathematics ability and their performance in a drug calculation test

,Accepted 10 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2010.01.009

Nurse Education Today
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