Comment on: 'Kangaroo mother care' to prevent neonatal deaths due to pre-term birth complications

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 521-525

  Sloan, Nancy L ^a   Ahmed, Salahuddin ^b   Anderson, Gene Cranston ^c   Moore, Elizabeth ^d  

^a Department of Population and Family Health ^*  (United States)

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

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; KANGAROO CARE; LABOR COMPLICATION; LETTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; VALIDITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH;

EID: 79953702538     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq174     Document Type: Letter

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