Setting research priorities to reduce almost one million deaths from birth asphyxia by 2015

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lawn, Joy E ^a   Bahl, Rajiv ^b   Bergstrom, Staffan ^c,d   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^e   Darmstadt, Gary L ^f   Ellis, Matthew ^g   English, Mike ^h,i   Kurinczuk, Jennifer J ^j   Lee, Anne C C ^k   Merialdi, Mario ^b   Mohamed, Mohamed ^l   Osrin, David ^m   Pattinson, Robert ⁿ   Paul, Vinod ^o   Ramji, Siddarth ^p   Saugstad, Ola D ^q   Sibley, Lyn ^r   Singhal, Nalini ^s   Wall, Steven N ^t   Woods, Dave ^u   Wyatt, John ^v   Chan, Kit Yee ^w   Rudan, Igor ^x,y   more..

^a SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^f BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^g SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^k JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^l GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^o ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^p MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^q OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^r EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^t SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^v UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^w UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^x UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^y UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; NEWBORN DEATH; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; RESEARCH PRIORITY; COMMUNITY CARE; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EXPERT WITNESS; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICE; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERVENTION STUDY; MATERNITY WARD; MORTALITY; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH; RESUSCITATION; STILLBIRTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; BIRTHING CENTERS; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; GOALS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; RESUSCITATION; STILLBIRTH; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79951656956     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000389     Document Type: Article

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