Supine infant sleep: what do family physicians recommend?

Journal of the American Board of Family Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 319-323

  Spieker, Michael R ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY MEDICINE; NEWBORN; PEDIATRICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SLEEP; STANDARD; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SUPINE POSITION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COHORT STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY MEDICINE; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; SLEEP; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; SUPINE POSITION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030228121     PISSN: 08938652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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