Gestational age and birthweight for risk assessment of neurodevelopmental impairment or death in extremely preterm infants

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2016, Pages F494-F501

  Salas, Ariel A ^a   Carlo, Waldemar A ^a   Ambalavanan, Namasivayam ^a   Nolen, Tracy L ^b   Stoll, Barbara J ^c   Das, Abhik ^b   Higgins, Rosemary D ^d  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD DEATH; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

EID: 84995370960     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2015-309670     Document Type: Article

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