A national survey of admission practices for late preterm infants in England

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fleming, Paul F ^a,b   Arora, Puneet ^a   Mitting, Rebecca ^a   Aladangady, Narendra ^a,b,c  

^a HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SDM COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Guideline; Late preterm infant; Low birth weight; Nursery nurse; Postnatal ward admission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEONATAL NURSE PRACTITIONER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PEDIATRIC WARD; POSTNATAL WARD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURITY; UNITED KINGDOM; NEWBORN NURSING; NURSERY; NURSING STAFF; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIRTH WEIGHT; ENGLAND; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; NEONATAL NURSING; NURSERIES, HOSPITAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ADMISSION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84902301190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-14-150     Document Type: Article

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