Are current UK tetanus prophylaxis procedures for wound management optimal?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 845-848

  Cooke, Matthew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTITOXIN; TETANUS ANTIBODY; TETANUS TOXOID;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNOASSAY; INCIDENCE; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICIAN; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TETANUS; TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; UNITED KINGDOM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; WOUND CARE; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; IMMUNOASSAY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PATIENT SELECTION; TETANUS; TETANUS TOXOID; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 72449171008     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2008.070268     Document Type: Review

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