Survival in infants live born at less than 24 weeks' gestation: The hidden morbidity of non-survivors

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Swamy, Ravi ^a   Mohapatra, Sitikant ^a   Bythell, Mary ^b   Embleton, Nicholas D ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b Regional Maternity Survey Office   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 77954364019     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.171629     Document Type: Article

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