Neonatal jaundice: Knowledge and practice of Iranian mothers with icteric newborns

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 942-945

  Amirshaghaghi, Abdolahad ^a   Ghabili, Kamyar ^b   Shoja, Mohammadali M ^b   Kooshavar, Hossein ^c  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hyperbilirubinemia; Kernicterus; Knowledge; Neonatal jaundice

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; KERNICTERUS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; PARENT; POSTNATAL CARE;

BILIRUBIN; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; KERNICTERUS; MALE; MOTHERS; PARENTS; POSTNATAL CARE;

EID: 53749083027     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2008.942.945     Document Type: Article

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