Nurse-led school-based clinics for skin infections and rheumatic fever prevention: Results from a pilot study in South Auckland

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 1373, 2013, Pages

  Gray, Sarah ^a   Lennon, Diana ^b   Anderson, Philippa ^a   Stewart, Joanna ^b   Farrell, Elizabeth ^a  

^a Division of Medicine Emergency and Integrated Care   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFALEXIN; FUSIDATE SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; ECZEMA; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; IMPETIGO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; PHARYNGITIS; PILOT STUDY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REINFECTION; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SCABIES; SKIN INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS;

EID: 84876583621     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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