Quality indicators but not admission volumes of neonatal intensive care units are effective in reducing mortality rates of preterm infants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Rochow, Niels ^a   Landau Crangle, Erin ^a   Lee, Sauyoung ^a   Schünemann, Holger ^a   Fusch, Christoph ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MORTALITY RATE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; SIMULATION; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERMONT;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MORTALITY; PATIENT ADMISSION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; VERMONT;

EID: 84983396014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161030     Document Type: Article

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