Reduced lighting does not improve medical outcomes in very low birth weight infants

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 527-531

  Kennedy, Kathleen A ^a,b,c,d   Fielder, Alistair R ^a,b,c,d   Hardy, Robert J ^a,b,c,d   Tung, Betty ^a,b,c,d   Gordon, Dawn C ^a,b,c,d   Reynolds, James D ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0034781606     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpd.2001.117579     Document Type: Article

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