High mortality rates for very low birth weight infants in developing countries despite training

Pediatrics

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Carlo, Waldemar A ^a,b   Goudar, Shivaprasad S ^c   Jehan, Imtiaz ^d   Chomba, Elwyn ^b,e   Tshefu, Antoinette ^f   Garces, Ana ^g   Parida, Sailajanandan ^h   Althabe, Fernando ⁱ   McClure, Elizabeth M ^j   Derman, Richard J ^k   Goldenberg, Robert L ^l   Bose, Carl ^m   Hambidge, Michael ⁿ   Panigrahi, Pinaki ^o   Buekens, Pierre ^p   Chakraborty, Hrishikesh ^j   Hartwell, Tyler D ^j   Moore, Janet ^j   Wright, Linda L ^q  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH IN ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^c JAWAHARLAL NEHRU MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^f Kinshasa School of Public Health   (Democratic Republic Congo)

^g IMSALUD/San Carlos University   (Guatemala)

^h Sriram Chandra Bhanja Medical College   (India)

ⁱ INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

^j RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^l DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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

^p TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

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Author keywords

Developing countries; Health care systems; Neonatal mortality; Perinatal mortality; Prematurity; Stillbirth; Very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MONITORING; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL POPULATION; STAFF TRAINING; STILLBIRTH; TRAINING; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INSERVICE TRAINING; MIDWIFERY; NEONATOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RESUSCITATION; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVAL RATE; TEACHING;

EID: 78049424876     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-1183     Document Type: Article

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