Birth asphyxia: A major cause of early neonatal mortality in a Tanzanian rural hospital

Pediatrics

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Ersdal, Hege Langli ^a,b   Mduma, Estomih ^c   Svensen, Erling ^c,d   Perlman, Jeffrey ^e  

^a STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c HAYDOM LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (Tanzania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Causes of neonatal deaths; Low resource settings; Millennium developmental goal 4; Neonatal mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CESAREAN SECTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; TANZANIA;

APGAR SCORE; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTORS; STILLBIRTH; TANZANIA;

EID: 84860586703     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-3134     Document Type: Article

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