Moderately premature infants at Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in California are discharged home earlier than their peers in Massachusetts and the United Kingdom

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Profit, J ^a,b,c,d   Zupancic, J A F ^b   McCormick, M C ^b,e   Richardson, D K ^b   Escobar, G J ^f   Tucker, J ^g   Tarnow Mordi, W ^g,h   Parry, G ⁱ  

^a Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT TRANSFER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 33745843281     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2005.075093     Document Type: Article

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