Outcomes of late-preterm infants: A retrospective, single-center, canadian study

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 844-850

  Kitsommart, Ratchada ^a,b   Janes, Marianne ^a   Mahajan, Vikas ^a   Rahman, Asad ^a   Seidlitz, Wendy ^c   Wilson, Jennifer ^a   Paes, Bosco ^a,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c MCMASTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Late preterm; Morbidity; Mortality; Outcomes; Perinatal

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; TERM BIRTH;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MALE; ONTARIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 70349309921     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922809340432     Document Type: Article

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