Mortality rates for extremely low birth weight infants born in Japan in 2005

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 445-450

  Itabashi, Kazuo ^a,i   Horiuchi, Takeshi ^b   Kusuda, Satoshi ^c   Kabe, Kazuhiko ^d   Itani, Yasufumi ^e   Nakamura, Takashi ^f   Fujimura, Masanori ^g   Matsuo, Masafumi ^h  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Aiiku Hospital   (Japan)

^e KANAGAWA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^f TAISHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH   (Japan)

^h KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extremely low birth weight; Infant; Mortality rates; National survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFANT MORTALITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; JAPAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 61549109570     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-0763     Document Type: Article

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