Invited commentary: Crossing curves - It's time to focus on gestational age-specific mortality

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 169, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 798-801

  Parker, Jennifer D ^a   Klebanoff, Mark A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Directed graph; Gestational age; Infant mortality

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; COMPLEXITY; GRAPHICAL METHOD; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR;

BIRTH WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; NEWBORN; NOTE;

BIRTH WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN;

EID: 63149174854     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp025     Document Type: Review

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