A hidden menace: Hemolytic uremic syndrome

American Journal of Nursing

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 26-32

  Schmelzer, Marilee ^a   Stam, Mary Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK FACTOR;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034323970     PISSN: 0002936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000446-200011000-00040     Document Type: Article

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