Effects of a birth hospital's neonatal intensive care unit level and annual volume of very low-birth-weight infant deliveries on morbidity and mortality

JAMA Pediatrics

Volumn 169, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Jensen, Erik A ^a,b   Lorch, Scott A ^a,b,c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ADULT; AGE; DELIVERY; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY;

EID: 84939865347     PISSN: 21686203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.1906     Document Type: Article

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