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Research Paper

Call for human contact and support: an interview study exploring patients’ experiences with inpatient stroke rehabilitation and their perception of nurses’ and nurse assistants’ roles and functions

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Pages 396-404 | Received 02 Mar 2017, Accepted 14 Oct 2017, Published online: 24 Oct 2017

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