The vermont-oxford neonatal network: Integrating research and clinical practice to improve the quality of medical care

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 124-131

  Horbar, Jeffrey D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; LUNG SURFACTANT; STEROID;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT MANDATORY VENTILATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DYSPLASIA; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028901765     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-0005(05)80032-1     Document Type: Article

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