Guidelines for managing acute gastroenteritis
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Guidelines for managing acute gastroenteritis based on a systematic review of published research.
This paper is intended to provide evidencebased recommendations about the assessment and clinical management of infants and children with acute gastroenteritis. These guidelines were derived from a systematic review of published research. The diagnosis of gastroenteritis is not addressed; this is often presumptive and is based on a history of acute diarrhoea in the absence of other likely expla...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.80.6.579c