Interpersonal touch interventions for patients in intensive care: A design‐oriented realist review

To develop a theoretical framework to inform the design of interpersonal touch interventions intended to reduce stress in adult intensive care unit patients.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Nursing Open

• Publication date

  2018-10-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/nop2.200PMID 30918674PMCID 6419112
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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