Intensive care for very low birthweight infants in South Africa: A survey of physician attitudes, parent counseling and resuscitation practices

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-16

  Partridge, J Colin ^a   Ranchod, Tushar M ^a   Ballot, Daynia E ^b   Martinez, Alma M ^a   Cory, Barbara J ^b   Davies, Victor A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PARENT COUNSELING; PARENTHOOD; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RELIGION; RESUSCITATION; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROBABILITY; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 15444375517     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmh066     Document Type: Article

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