Risk factors and estimation tool for death among extremely premature infants: A national study

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 696-703

  Bader, David ^a   Kugelman, Amir ^a   Boyko, Valentina ^b   Levitzki, Orna ^b   Lerner Geva, Liat ^b,c   Riskin, Arieh ^a   Reichman, Brian ^b,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Extremely premature infants; Infant mortality; National; Population

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEATH; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ISRAEL; MALE; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77950560141     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-1607     Document Type: Article

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