Venous access devices: obtaining coagulation tests in adult inpatients with cancer.

347 Ruth Zu-Kei Lin, RN, MSN, AOCN®, APN-C, is an oncology clinical nurse specialist at Morristown Memorial Hospital (MMH) in New Jersey; Susan Fowler, PhD, RN, CNRN, FAHA, is a clinical nurse researcher at the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey in Red Bank and was a clinical nurse researcher at MMH at the time of this research; and Craig A. Dise, MD, PhD, is chair of pathology and Rami Bustami, PhD, is a manager of biostatistics, both at MMH.

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