Benchmarking care for very low birthweight infants in Ireland and Northern Ireland

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Murphy, B P ^a,b   Armstrong, K ^a   Ryan, C A ^a,b   Jenkins, J G ^c  

^a Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD CARE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BENCHMARKING; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; IRELAND; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MORBIDITY; NORTHERN IRELAND; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 74749105301     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.160002     Document Type: Article

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