Survival and Subsequent Outcome to Five Years of Age for Infants with Birth Weights less than 801 Grams Born from 1983 to 1989

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 102-106

  Kilbride, Howard W ^a,b   Daily, Donna K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; PATIENT CARE; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISABLED CHILDREN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032020785     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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