Short-term Outcome of Perinatal Care in a Swedish County: Mortality, neonatal intensive care and overall evaluation of neuromotor function at 0-10 months of corrected age in preterm and term infants

Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-47

  Stromberg B ^a   Persson, K ^a   Ewald, U ^a   Hammarlund, K ^a   Jonzon, A ^a   Kjartansson, S ^a   Norsted, T ^a   Riesenfeld, T ^a   Sedin, Gunnar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Department of Forensic Medicine   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS DEATH; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG DYSPLASIA; LUNG VENTILATION; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PERINATAL CARE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL; SWEDEN; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA; FETAL DEATH; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERINATAL CARE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VENTILATION; SKULL; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032619405     PISSN: 03009734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03009739909178954     Document Type: Article

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