Hospital survival of very-low-birth-weight neonates from 1977 to 2000

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 343-350

  Kaiser, Jeffrey R ^a,c   Tilford, John M ^a   Simpson, Pippa M ^a   Salhab, Walid A ^b   Rosenfeld, Charles R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c ARKANSAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ABNORMALITIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS;

EID: 3142684811     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7211113     Document Type: Article

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