Analysis of neonatal mortality:is standardizing for relative birth weight biased?

• Main Authors: Kramer Michael S (Author), Ananth Cande V (Author), Platt Robert W (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Infant mortality has traditionally been analyzed as a function of birth weight and birth weight-specific mortality. Often, however, when comparing two populations, the population with higher overall mortality has lower mortality at l...