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01-06-2020 | Pediatrics | Editorial

Focus on paediatrics

Authors: Katherine L. Brown, Daniele De Luca

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 6/2020

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The United Nations (UN) sustainable development goal 3.2 is to end preventable deaths in neonates and children under the age of 5 years by 2030. In this focus paper, we present an overview of studies related to critically ill children from 2019, which may help us to achieve this important UN goal. …

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Title: Focus on paediatrics
Authors: Katherine L. Brown
Daniele De Luca
Publication date: 01-06-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Pediatrics
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 6/2020
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06017-2

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