Very low birth weight infants - Mortality and predictive risk factors

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 565-570

  Chye, J K ^a   Lim, C T ^a  

^a HOSPITAL KUALA LUMPUR   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Exogenous surfactant; Infants (VLBW); Mortality; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

LUNG SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GASTROSCHISIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MORTALITY; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GASTROSCHISIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALAYSIA; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033182197     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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