Does This Child Have a Urinary Tract Infection?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 680-684

  Sahsi, Rupinder Singh ^a   Carpenter, Christopher R ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 64549091866     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.05.031     Document Type: Editorial

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