The patterns and causes of neonatal mortality at a tertiary hospital in Oman

Oman Medical Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 422-426

  Abdellatif, Mohamed ^a   Ahmed, Masood ^a   Bataclan, Maria Flordeliz ^a   Khan, Ashfaq Ahmed ^a   Al Battashi, Abeer ^b   Al Maniri, Abdullah ^c  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Oman)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Oman)

^c THE RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Oman)

Author keywords

Neonatal mortality; Oman; Prematurity

Indexed keywords

ACIDEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; EARLY NEONATAL DEATH; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYALINE MEMBRANE DISEASE; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVE BIRTH; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE DYSMORPHIC FEATURE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; POTTER SYNDROME; PREMATURITY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21;

EID: 84887340345     PISSN: 1999768X     EISSN: 20705204     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5001/omj.2013.119     Document Type: Article

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