Measurement of Quality of Life of Survivors of Neonatal Intensive Care: Critique and Implications

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-66

  Saigal, Saroj ^a   Tyson, Jon ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

health status; health related quality of life; measurement of quality of life; neonatal intensive care; very low birth weight infants

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PARENT COUNSELING; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 38649087710     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2007.12.007     Document Type: Review

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