Necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants: Biodemographic and clinical correlates

The Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 630-638

  Uauy, Ricardo D ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Fanaroff, Avroy A ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Korones, Sheldon B ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Phillips, Elizabeth A ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Phillips, Joseph B ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Wright, Linda L ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^f EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD CULTURE; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING ENTERITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAGING; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEGRO; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL CARE; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

BIRTH WEIGHT; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMAN; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; NEGROID RACE; PRENATAL CARE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0026246081     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3476(05)82418-7     Document Type: Article

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