Kangaroo Mother Care: A randomized controlled trial on effectiveness of early Kangaroo Mother Care for the low birthweight infants in Addis Ababa, ethiopia

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 93-97

  Worku, Bogale ^a   Kassie, Assaye ^a  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHIOPIA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; OXYGEN THERAPY; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL;

ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 20444406032     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmh085     Document Type: Article

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