The NICHD Neonatal Research Network: Changes in practice and outcomes during the first 15 years

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 281-287

  Fanaroff, Avroy A ^a   Hack, Maureen ^b   Walsh, Michele C ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEUKOMALACIA; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PERINATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042919564     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-0005(03)00055-7     Document Type: Article

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