Impaired Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Very Preterm Infants: Much Too Easy to Blame It Just on Morphine!

Johannes N van den Anker1, Monique van Dijk2, Dick Tibboel2

  • 1Division of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC; Departments of Pediatrics, Integrative Systems Biology, Pharmacology, and Physiology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC; George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC; Division of Pediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University of Basel Children's Hospital, Basel, Switzerland; Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The Journal of Pediatrics
|February 21, 2016
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