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Published in: Indian Journal of Pediatrics 3/2017

01-03-2017 | Scientific Letter

Mourning the Death of a Foreign Child

Author: Alberto Stefana

Published in: Indian Journal of Pediatrics | Issue 3/2017

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To the Editor: North-American and Western European societies are multicultural. This affects hospital and outpatient organizations: the hospitalizations of patients coming from totally different cultural contexts are becoming more and more frequent. Among the hospitalized patients, there are also newborns and infants. Unfortunately, some of them do not survive. The importance of this phenomenon should not be underestimated [1]. …
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Metadata
Title
Mourning the Death of a Foreign Child
Author
Alberto Stefana
Publication date
01-03-2017
Publisher
Springer India
Published in
Indian Journal of Pediatrics / Issue 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0019-5456
Electronic ISSN: 0973-7693
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-016-2264-2

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