Morbidity and mortality of very-low-birth-weight infants as an indicator of the quality of perinatal care;Morbimortalidad en recién nacidos de muy bajo peso en el control de la calidad de la asistencia perinatal

Anales de Pediatria

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 464-470

  Valls i Soler, A ^a   Paramo Andres S ^a   Centeno Monterubio, C ^a   Anso Olivan S ^a   Gortazar Arias, P ^a   Lopez de Heredia I ^a   Cotero Lavin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Neonatal morbidity and mortality; Quality of care; Very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERINATAL CARE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 0037834679     PISSN: 16954033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13046516     Document Type: Article

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