Risk management, or just a different risk?

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Freer, Y ^a   Lyon, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NEWBORN CARE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK MANAGEMENT; STOMACH INTUBATION; TECHNIQUE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FOREIGN BODIES; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 33748443578     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2005.089540     Document Type: Article

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