Impact of a Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center on Early Childhood Mortality in a Developing Country: The Jamaican Experience

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 702-705.e1

  King, Lesley G C ^a   Bortolusso Ali, Susanna ^a   Cunningham Myrie, Colette A ^b   Reid, Marvin E G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; ANEMIA; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; JAMAICA; JAMAICAN; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SPLEEN DISEASE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SUDDEN DEATH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BETA-THALASSEMIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BETA-THALASSEMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84940448128     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.06.028     Document Type: Article

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