Disparities in perinatal quality outcomes for very low birth weight infants in neonatal intensive care

Health Services Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 374-397

  Lake, Eileen T ^a   Staiger, Douglas ^b   Horbar, Jeffrey ^c   Kenny, Michael J ^c   Patrick, Thelma ^d   Rogowski, Jeannette A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RUTGERS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; nurse practice environment; nurse staffing; quality standards; VLBW infants

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLACK PERSON; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; BREAST MILK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NURSING CARE; NURSING STAFF; PERINATAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STANDARD; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WORK ENVIRONMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CROSS INFECTION; ETHNOLOGY; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERMONT; WORKLOAD;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VERMONT; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84924371114     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12225     Document Type: Article

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