Moderately preterm infants and determinants of length of hospital stay

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Altman, M ^a   Vanpee M ^b   Cnattingius, S ^b   Norman, M ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE BIRTH OFFSPRING; NEONATOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350438407     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2008.153668     Document Type: Article

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