Specialised antenatal clinics for women with a pregnancy at high risk of preterm birth (excluding multiple pregnancy) to improve maternal and infant outcomes

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Whitworth, Melissa ^a   Quenby, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CENTER; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL CARE; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 44949244187     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006760     Document Type: Review

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