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Child Abuse Review, Volume 32, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023 Abstract The importance of the first three years of life for children's development and the consequences for their general health in adulthood have been widely documented in the international literature, including the benefits of early identification and intervention programs.
Emmanuelle Toussaint, Daniel Rousseau
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The Care of Premature Infants [PDF]
American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1939 THE fate of the premature infant l depends on a number of factors, among which are the health of the mother during pregnancy, the degree of the infant's immaturity at birth, and the care that is received by the infant after birth. Methods of caring for premature infants have been determined largely on a trial-and-error basis rather than on a scientific
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Estimation of causal effects using instrumental variables with nonignorable missing covariates: Application to effect of type of delivery NICU on premature infants [PDF]
Annals of Applied Statistics 2014, Vol. 8, No. 1, 48-73, 2014 Understanding how effective high-level NICUs (neonatal intensive care units that have the capacity for sustained mechanical assisted ventilation and high volume) are compared to low-level NICUs is important and valuable for both individual mothers and for public policy decisions.
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What can we learn from functional clustering of mortality data? An application to HMD data [PDF]
European Journal of Population 37 (2021) 769-798, 2020 In most cases, mortality is analysed considering summary indicators (e.~g. $e_0$ or $e^{\dagger}_0$) that either focus on a specific mortality component or pool all component-specific information in one measure. This can be a limitation, when we are interested to analyse the global evolution of mortality patterns without loosing sight of specific ...
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Child Abuse Review, Volume 32, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023 Abstract Repeated reporting to child protection is common. One approach to early intervention is for jurisdictions to receive and respond to child protection concerns raised before children are born. Despite this, little research has comprehensively examined subsequent child protection contact for those first reported prenatally.
Olivia Octoman +6 more
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La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica, 2021 Invasive procedures commonly cause recurring pain in preterm infants. Noninvasive pain management is an essential part of nursing intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Defi Efendi +5 more
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Prolonged duration of early antibiotic therapy in extremely premature infants. [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundProlonged early antibiotics in extremely premature infants may have negative effects. We aimed to assess prevalence and outcomes of provision of prolonged early antibiotics to extremely premature infants in the absence of culture-confirmed ...
Chowdhury, Dhuly +11 more
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Epidurography in premature infants [PDF]
Anaesthesia, 1990 SummaryA caudal epidural catheter was inserted in 20 premature, high risk infants for abdominal or thoracic surgery under combined caudal epidural and general anaesthesia. Epidurography was used to confirm the position of the catheter which was found to be misplaced in three patients. The catheter penetrated the dura in one case, in another the tip was
P. P. G. Kramer +3 more
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Infant-ID: Fingerprints for Global Good [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 In many of the least developed and developing countries, a multitude of infants continue to suffer and die from vaccine-preventable diseases and malnutrition. Lamentably, the lack of official identification documentation makes it exceedingly difficult to track which infants have been vaccinated and which infants have received nutritional supplements ...
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Combination Therapy With Vigabatrin and Prednisolone Versus Vigabatrin Alone for Infantile Spasms
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective The study evaluated the effectiveness of combination therapy with vigabatrin and prednisolone versus vigabatrin alone for treating infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS). Methods This single‐center, single‐blind, randomized trial enrolled infants aged 2–14 months with new‐onset IESS, randomly assigned them (1:1) to receive either
Rachata Boonkrongsak +6 more
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