Admission temperature of low birth weight infants: Predictors and associated morbidities

Pediatrics

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Laptook, Abbot R ^a,b   Salhab, Walid ^c   Bhaskar, Brinda ^d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Low birth weight; Prematurity; Sepsis; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STEROID; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELIVERY ROOM; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTUBATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BODY TEMPERATURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MULTIPLE BIRTH OFFSPRING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREGNANCY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947133062     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0943     Document Type: Article

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