Effect of ethnicity on mortality of very low birthweight infants in Israel

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Dollberg, S ^a   Mimouni, F B ^a   Lusky, A ^b   Reichman, B ^b  

^a LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DATA BASE; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOSLEM; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL CARE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; TWINS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 0038051532     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 13592998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.88.4.f333     Document Type: Article

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