Applied Nursing Research
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 167-177 , August 2005

Recruitment and retention in a longitudinal palliative care study

  • Deborah Witt Sherman, PhD, APRN, ANP, PCM, BC, FAAN

      Affiliations

    • College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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  • Christina Beyers McSherry, RN, MA

      Affiliations

    • New York University, Fair Haven, NJ 07704, USA
    • Tel.: +1 212 998 5316.
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  • Valerie Parkas, MD

      Affiliations

    • Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY, USA
    • Tel.: +1 212 241 0701.
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  • Xiang Y. Ye, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, New York University Medical Center, First Avenue and 38th Street, New York, NY, USA
    • Tel.: +1 212 263 6933.
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  • Miriam Calabrese, RN, MA, APRN, BC-PCM

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    • Bayport, NY 11705, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 212 998 5316, (home): +1 845 294 6974; fax: +1 845 294 8446.
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  • Maria Gatto, RN, MA, APRN, BC-PCM

      Affiliations

    • Hawthorne, NJ 07506, USA
    • Tel.: +1 973 304 058.

Received 4 August 2004 ,Revised 5 January 2005 ,Accepted 24 April 2005.

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☆ This study was funded by the National Cancer Institute.

PII: S0897-1897(05)00037-6

doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2005.04.003

Applied Nursing Research
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