Applied Nursing Research
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 205-209 , November 2007

Systematic bias in self-reported annual household incomes among unpartnered elderly cardiac patients

  • Yoshimi Fukuoka, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Fax: +1 415 476 8899.
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  • Sally H. Rankin, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    • ,
  • Diane L. Carroll, PhD, APRN, BC

      Affiliations

    • Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    • Tel.: +1 617 724 4934; fax: +1 617 724 4950.

Received 13 October 2006 ,Revised 21 January 2007 ,Accepted 25 January 2007.

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PII: S0897-1897(07)00022-5

doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2007.01.010

Applied Nursing Research
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 205-209 , November 2007

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