Extremes of weight centile are associated with increased risk of mortality in pediatric intensive care.

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Published in Crit Care on March 31, 2011

Authors

Andrew Numa1, John McAweeney, Gary Williams, John Awad, Hari Ravindranathan

Author Affiliations

1: Intensive Care Unit, Sydney Children's Hospital, High Street, Randwick 2031, Australia. a.numa@unsw.edu.au

Associated clinical trials:

Impact of Nutritional Status on Clinical Outcome in PICU | NCT04301791

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