The impact on neonatal mortality of shifting childbirth services among levels of hospitals: Taiwan's experience

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wang, Shi Yi ^a,b   Hsu, Sylvia H ^c   Chen, Li Kuei ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Ton Yen General Hospital   (Taiwan)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; EPIDEMIC; ERROR; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OBSERVATION; POPULATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SEASON; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TAIWAN; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TAIWAN;

EID: 68049147311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-94     Document Type: Article

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