Health risk screening in adolescents: Room for improvement in a tertiary inpatient setting

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 183, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 427-429

  Yeo, Michele S M ^a   Bond, Lynda M ^a   Sawyer, Susan M ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE; ILLICIT DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEPATITIS B; HOME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PUBERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TOBACCO;

EID: 27644510094     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb07110.x     Document Type: Article

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