Sink or swim - Clinicians don't often counsel on drowning prevention

Pediatrics

Volumn 104, Issue 5 II, 1999, Pages 1217-1219

  Barkin, Shari ^a,b   Gelberg, Lillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Counseling; Drowning; Physician's role

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PROFESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032703671     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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