Accounting for variation in length of NICU stay for extremely low birth weight infants

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 872-876

  Lee, H C ^a   Bennett, M V ^a   Schulman, J ^b,c   Gould, J B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b California Department of Health Care Services   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremely low birth weight infants; Length of stay; Premature infants

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD CARE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EXPOSURE; ETHNICITY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; GENDER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRENATAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

APGAR SCORE; BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STEROIDS;

EID: 84887114153     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jp.2013.92     Document Type: Article

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