Outcome prediction in Greek Neonatal Intensive Care Units using a Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology (SNAP)

Pediatrics

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1037-1044

  Petridou, Eleni ^a,b   Richardson, Donald K ^c   Dessypris, Nick ^a   Malamitsi Puchner, Ariadne ^d   Mantagos, Stephane ^e   Nicolopoulos, Dimitrios ^d   Papas, Constantine ^f   Salvanos, Heraclus ^f   Sevastiadou, Sophie ^d   Sofatzis, John ^f   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^f HELENA VENIZELOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

International performance; Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU); Predictive power; Score for neonatal acute physiology (SNAP)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031810561     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.101.6.1037     Document Type: Article

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