Epidemiology of Late Preterm (Near-Term) Births

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 751-763

  Raju, Tonse N K ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNG SURFACTANT;

CESAREAN SECTION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LABOR INDUCTION; LATE PRETERM BIRTH; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEAR TERM BIRTH; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 34249000750     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2006.09.009     Document Type: Review

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