Public Health
Volume 121, Issue 2 , Pages 137-143 , February 2007

Critical overview of the management of neonatal jaundice in the UK

Received 4 July 2005 ,Revised 7 February 2006 ,Accepted 21 July 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.07.030

Public Health
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