Neonatal intensive care unit characteristics affect the incidence of severe intraventricular hemorrhage

Medical Care

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 754-759

  Synnes, Anne R ^a,b,g   MacNab, Ying C ^a,b   Qiu, Zhenguo ^c   Ohlsson, Arne ^d   Gustafson, Paul ^a   Dean, Charmaine B ^e   Lee, Shoo K ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g CHILDREN S AND WOMEN S HEALTH CENTRE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hierarchical regression models; Intraventricular hemorrhage; Neonatal intensive care; Outcome variations; Prematurity

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CANADA; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOLOGY; PREMATURITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MALE; PREMATURE BIRTH;

EID: 33747829914     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000218780.16064.df     Document Type: Article

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