Risk factors and spectrum of neonatal jaundice in a birth cohort in Karachi

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 487-493

  Arif, Khuram ^a   Bhutta, Zulfiqar Ahmed ^a,b  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033123138     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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