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J Caring Sci. 2020;9(2): 98-103. doi: 10.34172/JCS.2020.015
PMID: 32626672        PMCID: PMC7322405

Original Article

The Relationship between Nurses’ Moral Sensitivity and Patients’ Satisfaction with the Care Received in the Medical Wards

Elham Amiri 1 ORCID, Hossein Ebrahimi 1 * ORCID, Hossein Namdar Areshtanab 1 ORCID, Maryam Vahidi 1 ORCID, Mohamad Asghari Jafarabadi 2 ORCID

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