Mixed Blessings: Intensive Care for Newborns
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Mixed Blessings. Intensive Care for Newborns
Newborn intensive care, a relatively new medical specialty, has recently become a very controversial one. It involves extremely complicated and expensive technology applied to cases of often uncertain benefit and considerable emotional investment. Many difficult issues remain unresolved, including whether newborn intensive care is an appropriate allocation of increasingly limited medical resour...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.66.10.1265