Interinstitutional variation in prediction of death by SNAP-II and SNAPPE-II among extremely preterm infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Dammann, Olaf ^a,b,c   Shah, Bhavesh ^d   Naples, Mary ^e   Bednarek, Francis ^e   Zupancic, John ^f,g   Allred, Elizabeth N ^c,g,h   Leviton, Alan ^g  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^f BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Illness severity; Mortality prediction; Newborn; Preterm; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORE FOR NEONATAL ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY; SCORE FOR NEONATAL ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY II; SCORING SYSTEM;

GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 70350508305     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-3233     Document Type: Article

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