Counting respiratory rate in infants under 2 months: Comparison between observation and auscultation

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-138

  Singhi, Sunit ^a   Bhalla, A K ^a   Bhandari, Ashok ^a   Narang, Anil ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESPIRATORY DISEASE;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; BODY MOVEMENT; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; AUSCULTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS;

EID: 0038473941     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/027249303235002206     Document Type: Article

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