The decline of SIDS: A success story for epidemiology

Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 323-325

  Dwyer, Terence ^a   Ponsonby, Anne Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY POSITION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSALITY; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; POSTURE; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 0029965952     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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