The EPICure study: Outcomes to discharge from hospital for infants born at the threshold of viability

Pediatrics

Volumn 106, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 659-671

  Costeloe, Kate ^a,e   Hennessy, Enid ^a   Gibson, Alan T ^b   Marlow, Neil ^c   Wilkinson, Andrew R ^d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Jessops Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral ultrasound scan; Chronic lung disease; Extremely preterm infant; Hydrocephalus; Intraventricular hemorrhage; Parenchymal cysts; Retinopathy of prematurity; Survival

Indexed keywords

STEROID; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOTHERMIA; INFANT; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEGRO; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OXYGEN THERAPY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; SEX RATIO; STEROID THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOCOLYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033781313     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.106.4.659     Document Type: Article

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