Recommendations from international clinical guidelines for routine antenatal infection screening: Does evidence matter?

International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-61

  Piso, Brigitte ^a   Reinsperger, Inanna ^a   Winkler, Roman ^a  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Communicable diseases; Evidence based practice; Practice guideline; Pregnancy; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; STANDARDS;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE;

EID: 84922069064     PISSN: 17441595     EISSN: 17441609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.XEB.0000444636.80841.c9     Document Type: Note

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