Trends in infant mortality from necrotising enterocolitis in England and Wales and the USA

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Rees, Clare M ^a   Eaton, Simon ^a   Pierro, Agostino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ENGLAND; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; UNITED STATES; WALES;

EID: 51449102967     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2007.136994     Document Type: Letter

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