Pretransport and posttransport characteristics and outcomes of neonates who were admitted to a cardiac intensive care unit

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1070-1077

  Yeager, Scott B ^a   Horbar, Jeffrey D ^b   Greco, Karla M ^a   Duff, Julianna ^c   Thiagarajan, Ravi R ^c   Laussen, Peter C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac care facilities; Cardiac surgical procedures; Congenital heart defects; Transportation of patients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME VARIABLE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PH; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERMINAL DISEASE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749076067     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0719     Document Type: Article

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