Management of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia: Pediatricians' practices and educational needs

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Petrova, Anna ^a   Mehta, Rajeev ^a   Birchwood, Gillian ^a   Ostfeld, Barbara ^a   Hegyi, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KERNICTERUS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; PEDIATRICIAN; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BILIRUBIN; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; CULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA, NEONATAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; KERNICTERUS; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW JERSEY; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 33646190948     PISSN: 14712431     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-6-6     Document Type: Article

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