Interventions to Improve Neonatal Health and Later Survival: An Overview of Systematic Reviews

EBioMedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 985-1000

  Lassi, Zohra S ^a   Middleton, Philippa F ^a   Crowther, Caroline ^a,b   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Child mortality; Infant mortality; Neonatal mortality; Perinatal mortality; Stillbirths; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CALCIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; FOLIC ACID; IRON; RETINOL; SURFACTANT; UTEROTONIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BED NET; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDBIRTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; HUMAN; HYGIENIC CORD CARE; INFANT MORTALITY; KANGAROO CARE; MALARIA; MEASLES ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; MENINGITIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STILLBIRTH; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT HEALTH; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; PREGNANCY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN;

EID: 84951574098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.05.023     Document Type: Article

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