Journal article
Autopsy in a neonatal intensive care unit: utilization patterns and associations of clinicopathologic discordances
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: (1) To develop methods to describe autopsy utilization patterns in a neonatal intensive care unit. (2) To identify classes of patients likely to have clinicopathologic concordance or discordance.
METHODS: Five hundred forty-five consecutive neonatal intensive care unit deaths (338 autopsied, rate 62%) in a regional tertiary/quaternary care neonatal intensive care unit for referred infants (65,000 annual births) were classified in …
Authors
Dhar V; Perlman M; Vilela MI; Haque KN; Kirpalani H; Cutz E
Journal
The Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 132, No. 1, pp. 75–79
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
1 1998
DOI
10.1016/s0022-3476(98)70488-3
ISSN
0022-3476