School difficulties at adolescence in a regional cohort of children who were extremely low birth weight

Pediatrics

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 325-331

  Saigal, Saroj ^a   Hoult, Lorraine A ^a   Streiner, David L ^b   Stoskopf, Barbara L ^a   Rosenbaum, Peter L ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Extremely low birth weight; Follow up

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033950439     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.105.2.325     Document Type: Article

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