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Development of a Pediatric Blood Pressure Percentile Tool for Clinical Decision Support
Blake Martin1,2, Peter E DeWitt3, David Albers3
1Section of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora.
JAMA Network Open
|October 17, 2022
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