Pediatric Investigators Collaborative Network on Infections in Canada (PICNIC) study of admission and management variation in patients hospitalized with respiratory syncytial viral lower respiratory tract infection

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 390-395

  Wang, E E L ^a   Law, B J ^a   Boucher, F D ^a   Stephens, D ^a   Robinson, J L ^a   Dobson, S ^a   Langley, J M ^a   McDonald, J ^a   MacDonald, N E ^a   Mitchell, I ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; RIBAVIRIN; STEROID;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHILD; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030411270     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3476(96)70071-9     Document Type: Article

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