Preterm birth a long distance from home and its significant social and financial stress
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Preterm birth a long distance from home and its significant social and financial stress.
The present paper reports a retrospective cohort of preterm infants admitted to our hospital who delivered outside the normal geographical catchment area of the mother's local level three neonatal nursery. Nineteen mothers had 21 preterm infants (23.1-34.9 weeks, 500-2330 g born) where 14 infants required ventilation (median 57 h, range 3-428). Eighteen survivors had a median length of stay of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0004-8666,1479-828X
DOI: 10.1046/j.0004-8666.2003.00092.x