Impact of universal bilirubin screening on severe hyperbilirubinemia and phototherapy use

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1031-1039

  Kuzniewicz, Michael W ^a,e   Escobar, Gabriel J ^b   Newman, Thomas B ^b,c,d  

^a Department of Pediatrics   (United States)

^b Division of Clinical Epidemiology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilirubin; Jaundice; Newborn; Phototherapy; Screening

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BIRTH WEIGHT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING;

BILIRUBIN; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA, NEONATAL; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEONATAL SCREENING; ODDS RATIO; PHOTOTHERAPY; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70349728522     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-2980     Document Type: Article

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