Outcomes for high risk New Zealand newborn infants in 1998-1999: A population based, national study

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Cust, A E ^a   Darlow, B A ^b   Donoghue, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037232855     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 13592998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.88.1.f15     Document Type: Article

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