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Delayed Discharge Audit – Paper Presented at Barna Conference 2011

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2012

Jacqui Bishop  and
Lucie Llewellyn
Jacqui Bishop*
Affiliation:
Clinical Recovery Manager, St. George's Hospital, London
Lucie Llewellyn
Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer, Kingston University
*
Correspondence to: Jacqui Bishop, Clinical Recovery Manager, St. George's Hospital, London. E-mail: [email protected]
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British Journal of Anaesthetic & Recovery Nursing , Volume 13 , Issue 3-4 , August 2012 , pp. 40 - 47
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Copyright © British Association of Anaesthetic and Recovery Nursing 2012

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