Abstract
Forty-five per cent of children in the United Kingdom will come into hospital by the age of seven years (Davie, Butler and Goldstein, 1972).
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Lewer, H., Robertson, L. (1987). Why children come into hospital. In: Care of the Child. The Essentials of Nursing. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09488-2_10
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