Medico-legal aspects of pressure sores

Legal Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Heinemann, Axel ^a   Tsokos, Michael ^a   Püschel, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decubitus; Osteomyelitis; Procalcitonin; Quality of care; Septicemia

Indexed keywords

PROCALCITONIN;

AUTOPSY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MARKER; FATALITY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALPRACTICE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NURSERY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOLOGIST; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PREVALENCE; PROCESS MONITORING; SEPTICEMIA;

EID: 0038077429     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(02)00145-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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