Effect of emollient therapy on clinical outcomes in preterm neonates in Pakistan:A randomised controlled trial

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2015, Pages F210-F215

  Salam, Rehana A ^a   Darmstadt, Gary L ^b   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a,c  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCONUT OIL; EMOLLIENT AGENT; VEGETABLE OIL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PAKISTAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEPSIS; WEIGHT GAIN; COCONUT; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; COCOS; CROSS INFECTION; EMOLLIENTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; PAKISTAN; PLANT OILS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SKIN; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84927650083     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-307157     Document Type: Article

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