The effect of terminations of pregnancy for fetal abnormalities on trends in mortality to one year of age in Western Australia

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 284-293

  Bourke, Jenny ^a   Bower, Carol ^a,b   Blair, Eve ^a   Charles, Adrian ^b   Knuiman, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Women's and Children's Health Service   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH DEFECT; BONE MALFORMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; DOWN SYNDROME; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; STILLBIRTH; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ABORTION, INDUCED; AUSTRALIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 21244445333     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2005.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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