Infant Stool Form Scale: Development and Results

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Bekkali, Noor ^a   Hamers, Sofie L ^a   Reitsma, Johannes B ^b   Van Toledo, Letty ^a   Benninga, Marc A ^a  

^a EMMA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOOL FORM SCALE;

EID: 62649143716     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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