Hospital level of care and neonatal mortality in low-and high-risk deliveries: Reassessing the question in Sweden by multilevel analysis

Medical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1092-1100

  Merlo, Juan ^a,d   Gerdtham, Ulf G ^a   Eckerlund, Ingemar ^b   Håkansson, Stefan ^c   Otterblad Olausson, Petra ^c   Pakkanen, Milla ^c   Lindqvist, Pelle G ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Low risk birth; Neonatal mortality; Regionalization; Sweden; Variance analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 24644487532     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000182484.14608.b9     Document Type: Article

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