Management of urinary tract infection in a tertiary children' s hospital before and after publication of the NICE guidelines

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 521-525

  Judkins, Agnieshka ^a   Pascoe, Elaine ^a,b   Payne, Donald ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SUCCIMER;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CLINICAL EXCELLENCE; NEWBORN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

GENERAL PAEDIATRICS; IMAGING; MICROBIOLOGY; NEPHROLOGY; PAEDIATRIC PRACTICE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84879684351     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-303032     Document Type: Article

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