Mortality rate in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU): A local center experience

International Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 81-88

  Ghaffari, Javad ^a,b   Abbaskhanian, Ali ^a,b   Nazari, Zeinab ^a  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Member of Antimicrobial Resistant Nosocomial Infection Research Center

Author keywords

Children; Mortality; PICU

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015881284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23455055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22038/ijp.2014.2956     Document Type: Article

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