Short Term Oral Zinc Supplementation among Babies with Neonatal Sepsis for Reducing Mortality and Improving Outcome – A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 5-9

  Banupriya, Newton ^a   Bhat, Ballambattu Vishnu ^a   Benet, Bosco Dhas ^a   Catherine, Christina ^a   Sridhar, Magadi Gopalakrishna ^a   Parija, Subhash Chandra ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Mortality; Neonatal sepsis; Neurodevelopment; Outcome; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ZINC; ZINC SULFATE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MINERAL SUPPLEMENTATION; MORTALITY RATE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT DURATION; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; MORTALITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZINC SULFATE;

EID: 85029011000     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: 09737693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-017-2444-8     Document Type: Article

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