Infant mortality in a very low birth weight cohort from a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

• Main Authors: Regina Coeli Azeredo Cardoso (Author), Patrícia Viana Guimarães Flores (Author), Cláudia Lima Vieira (Author), Kátia Vergetti Bloch (Author), Rejane Sobrino Pinheiro (Author), Sandra Costa Fonseca (Author), Claudia Medina Coeli (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco, 2013-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVES: to evaluate infant mortality in very low birth weight newborns from a public hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2002-2006). METHODS: a retrospective cohort study was performed using the probabilistic linkage method to identify infant mortality. Mortality proportions were calculated acco...