Policy statement - Child fatality review

Pediatrics

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 592-596

  Christian, Cindy W ^a   Sege, Robert D ^a   Jenny, Carole ^a   Crawford, James ^a   Flaherty, Emalee G ^a   Hibbard, Roberta ^a   Kaplan, Rich ^a   Stirling Jr , John ^a   Gardner, H Garry ^a   Baum, Carl R ^a   Durbin, Dennis R ^a   Ebel, Beth E ^a   Lichenstein, Richard ^a   Limbos, Mary Ann Poquiz ^a   O'Neil, Joseph ^a   Quinlan, Kyran P ^a   Scholer, Seth ^a   Turner, Michael S ^a   Granado Villar, Deise ^a   Boulter, Suzanne C ^a   Brown, Jeffrey M ^a   Chilton, Lance ^a   Cotton, William H ^a   Gaines, Beverly ^a   Gambon, Thresia B ^a   Gitterman, Benjamin A ^a   Gorski, Peter A ^a   Katcher, Murray L ^a   Kraft, Colleen A ^a   Kuo, Alice ^a   Marino, Ronald V ^a   Paz Soldan, Gonzalo J ^a   Sokal Gutierrez, Karen B ^a   Zind, Barbara ^a   more..

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Author keywords

Child deaths; Child fatality review teams

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEATH; CHILD FATALITY REVIEW TEAM; CHILD NEGLECT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PEDIATRICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

EID: 77956297274     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-2006     Document Type: Review

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