Postdischarge infant mortality among very low birth weight infants: A population-based study

Pediatrics

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Kugelman, Amir ^a   Reichman, Brian ^b,c   Chistyakov, Irena ^a   Boyko, Valentina ^b   Levitski, Orna ^b   Lerner Geva, Liat ^b,c   Riskin, Arieh ^a   Bader, David ^a,d  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Discharge; Infant mortality; VLBW infants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; ISRAEL; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ABNORMALITIES; BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES;

EID: 35148863952     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-3765     Document Type: Article

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