How infants die in the neonatal intensive care unit: Trends from 1999 through 2008

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 630-634

  Weiner, Julie ^a   Sharma, Jotishna ^a   Lantos, John ^b   Kilbride, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD DEATH; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 79960295659     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2011.102     Document Type: Article

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