Test weighing for term and premature infants is an accurate procedure [3]

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Meier, Paula P ^a   Engstrom, Janet L ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACCURACY; BODY WEIGHT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; INFANT FEEDING; LETTER; MILK; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 33947216909     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.113480     Document Type: Letter

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