Neonatal Mortality in Weekend vs Weekday Births

JAMA

Volumn 289, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2958-2962

  Gould, Jeffrey B ^a,c   Qin, Cheng ^a   Marks, Amy R ^a   Chavez, Gilberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT MORTALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CALIFORNIA; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 0038142843     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.289.22.2958     Document Type: Article

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