Trends and centre-to-centre variability in survival rates of very preterm infants (<32 weeks) over a 10-year-period in Switzerland

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Berger, Thomas M ^a   Steurer, Martina A ^b   Woerner, Andreas ^c   Meyer Schiffer, Philipp ^d   Adams, Mark ^e  

^a LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SWITZERLAND; TREND STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY ROOM; INFANT MORTALITY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84865828605     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fetalneonatal-2011-301008     Document Type: Article

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