Avoidable deficiencies in the delivery of health care to children with meningococcal disease

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 298-303

  Nadel, Simon ^a,b   Britto, Joseph ^a   Booy, Robert ^a   Maconochie, Ian ^a   Habibi, Parviz ^a   Levin, Michael ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Dept of Paediatric Intensive Care ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avoidable deficiences; Health care delivery; Meningococcal disease

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; DISEASE DURATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PARENT; PARENTERAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; SHOCK; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031660712     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.15.5.298     Document Type: Article

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