Use of antiseptic for cord care and its association with neonatal mortality in a population-based assessment in Bihar State, India

BMJ Open

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Dandona, Rakhi ^a   Kochar, Priyanka S ^a   Kumar, G Anil ^a   Dandona, Lalit ^a,b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL VIOLET; DISINFECTANT AGENT; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTISEPSIS; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; LIVE BIRTH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOPICAL TREATMENT; UMBILICAL CORD; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENTIAN VIOLET; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POSTNATAL CARE; RISK FACTORS; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 85010790002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012436     Document Type: Article

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