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Small infants have greater survival rate in high level intensive care facilities
05-23-2007 · EurekAlert!Very low birth weight infants are significantly more likely to survive when delivered in hospitals with high-level neonatal intensive care units that care for more than 100 such newborns annually than are those delivered in comparable facilities that provide care to fewer than 100 such children every year.
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