The effect of neonatal intensive care level and hospital volume on mortality of very low birth weight infants

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 635-644

  Chung, Judith H ^a,b   Phibbs, Ciaran S ^c,d   Boscardin, W John ^e   Kominski, Gerald F ^b   Ortega, Alexander N ^b   Needleman, Jack ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Health Economics Resource Center   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

hospital volume; neonatal intensive care unit level; neonatal mortality; very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATERNAL AGE; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 77954086432     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181dbe887     Document Type: Article

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