Risk Factors Associated with Infant Death among Very Low Birth Weight Infants after Discharge from an Intensive Care Nursery

Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 84-88

  Piecuch, Robert E ^a,c   Leonard, Carol H ^a   Clyman, Ronald I ^a   Cooper, Bruce A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant death; Very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032042875     PISSN: 0196206X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004703-199804000-00004     Document Type: Article

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