Individual and center-level factors affecting mortality among extremely low birth weight infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Alleman, Brandon W ^a   Bell, Edward F ^a   Li, Lei ^b   Dagle, John M ^a   Smith, P Brian ^c   Ambalavanan, Namasivayam ^d   Laughon, Matthew M ^e   Stoll, Barbara J ^f   Goldberg, Ronald N ^c   Carlo, Waldemar A ^d   Murray, Jeffrey C ^a   Cotten, C Michael ^c   Shankaran, Seetha ^g   Walsh, Michele C ^h   Laptook, Abbot R ⁱ   Ellsbury, Dan L ^j   Hale, Ellen C ^f   Newman, Nancy S ^h   Wallace, Dennis D ^b   Das, Abhik ^b   Higgins, Rosemary D ^k   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^j PEDIATRIX MEDICAL GROUP   (United States)

^k EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

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Author keywords

Extremely preterm infants; Mortality rates; NICU; Outcome; Preterm infants

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARTIFICIAL LUNG SURFACTANT; CORTICOSTEROID; INDOMETACIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN;

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIGH FREQUENCY VENTILATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OXYGEN THERAPY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREDICTION; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION; TWINS; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EXTREMELY PRETERM INFANTS; MORTALITY RATES; NICU; OUTCOME; PRETERM INFANTS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879974352     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-3707     Document Type: Article

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