Changing trends in the UK management of childhood ITP

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-11

  Grainger, John D ^a   Rees, Joanne L ^a   Reeves, Marie ^a   Bolton Maggs, Paula H B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISOLONE; RHESUS D ANTIBODY; RITUXIMAB; STEROID;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTORY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG UTILIZATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PLATELET COUNT; PROGNOSIS; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC;

EID: 84455199794     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.184234     Document Type: Article

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