Effects of the North Carolina Prematurity Prevention Program among public patients delivering at New Hanover Memorial Hospital.
- 1 November 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 78 (11) , 1493-1495
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.78.11.1493
Abstract
Twelve per cent of the 847 women who delivered in one hospital prior to implementation of the North Carolina Prematurity Prevention Program had low-birthweight births compared with 9.5 per cent of the 748 women who delivered during the program. Controlling for known risk factors, both low- and very-low birthweight births among Whites (Odds Ratio 2.0 and 3.7 respectively) and very-low-birthweight births among Blacks (OR 2.9) were reduced.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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