Impact of simple interventions on neonatal mortality in a low-resource teaching hospital in India

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-49

  Agarwal, R ^a   Agarwal, K ^a   Acharya, U ^a   Christina, P ^a   Sreenivas, V ^a   Seetaraman, S ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NURSE TRAINING; RISK FACTOR; STUDENT T TEST; SURVIVAL RATE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT CARE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL;

EID: 33845772206     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7211620     Document Type: Article

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