Perinatal regionalization for very low-birth-weight and very preterm infants a meta-analysis

JAMA

Volumn 304, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 992-1000

  Lasswell, Sarah Marie ^a,b   Barfield, Wanda Denise ^a   Rochat, Roger William ^b   Blackmon, Lillian ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL CARE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONALIZATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREND STUDY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL; INFANT MORTALITY; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK; STATISTICS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ODDS RATIO; PREMATURE BIRTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77956209578     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.1226     Document Type: Review

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