Optimal gestational age and birth-weight cutoffs to predict neonatal morbidity

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 369-376

  Kohn, Michael A ^a   Vosti, Caroline L ^b   Lezotte, Dennis ^b   Jones, Richard H ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Gestational age; Logistic models; Neonatology; ROC curve analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PREDICTION; PREMATURITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEONATOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033659534     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X0002000401     Document Type: Article

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