The paediatric analgesia wheel: are you ready to roll?

The Lancet

Volumn 373, Issue 9678, 2009, Pages 1831-1832

  Abdi, Zeinab ^a  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; DOSE CALCULATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRICS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 65849517036     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61005-9     Document Type: Note

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