Neurodevelopmental and growth outcomes of extremely low birth weight infants who are transferred from neonatal intensive care units to level I or II nurseries

Pediatrics

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Lainwala, Shabnam ^a   Perritt, Rebecca ^b   Poole, Kenneth ^b   Vohr, Betty ^a  

^a WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

ELBW infants; Level I and II nurseries; Neurodevelopmental outcomes; NICU; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BLINDNESS; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD CARE; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NURSERY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERINATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS;

ADULT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSERIES, HOSPITAL; PATIENT TRANSFER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34248173419     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0899     Document Type: Article

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