Awareness of the risk of endocarditis associated with tattooing and body piercing among patients with congenital heart disease and paediatric cardiologists in the United Kingdom

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1013-1014

  Shebani, Suhair O ^a   Miles, Helen F J ^b   Simmons, Phil ^b   Stickley, John ^b   De Giovanni, Joseph V ^b  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY PIERCING; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TATTOOING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BODY PIERCING; CARDIOLOGY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ENDOCARDITIS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PEDIATRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; TATTOOING;

EID: 35748948929     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.114942     Document Type: Article

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