Risk adjusted and population based studies of the outcome for high risk infants in Scotland and Australia

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2000, Pages

  Tarnow Mordi, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mortality; Neonatal intensive care units; Very low birthweight infants; Very preterm infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MONITORING; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND;

EID: 0034103441     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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