Evaluation of Techniques for Intravenous Catheter and Tubing Fixation

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-81

  Naimer, Sody Abby ^a,b   Temira, Feinsilver ^b  

^a Goosh Katif Family Health Center   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUBE;

EID: 1642580494     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.1.79     Document Type: Article

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