The hidden harms of Matching Michigan

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Heron, Thomas J ^a   Faraday, Christopher M ^a   Clarke, Paul ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE;

ANTISEPSIS; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER CARE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHEMICAL BURN; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SKIN DECONTAMINATION;

INFECTIOUS DISEASES; INJURY PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE; NEONATOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL;

EID: 84883490366     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-304378     Document Type: Letter

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