Recent trends in Canadian infant mortality rates: Effect of changes in registration of live newborns weighing less than 500 g

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 155, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1047-1052

  Joseph, K S ^a   Kramer, Michael S ^b  

^a LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NEWBORN; REGISTRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0029985129     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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