"STOP"-ping harm: When is state intervention justified?

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-10

  Swota, Alissa Hurwitz ^a   Bradfield, Scott M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NEMOURS CHILDREN S CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN F; HYDROXYUREA;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COURT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; JEHOVAH'S WITNESS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NOTE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPLENECTOMY; STROKE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; GOVERNMENT; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; STATE GOVERNMENT;

EID: 73349141163     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.22171     Document Type: Note

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