Disentangling the Effects of Risk Factors and Clinical Care on Subnational Variation in Early Neonatal Mortality in the United States

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Straney, Lahn D ^a,b   Lim, Stephen S ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869140324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049399     Document Type: Article

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