Mortality of late-preterm (near-term) newborns in Utah

Pediatrics

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Young, Paul C ^a   Glasgow, Tiffany S ^a   Li, Xi ^a   Guest Warnick, Ginger ^a   Stoddard, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Late preterm; Mortality rates; Near term

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BIRTH DEFECT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

ABNORMALITIES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RISK; UTAH;

EID: 33947127382     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-2486     Document Type: Article

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