Retrolental Fibroplasia: A Modern Parable – Contents
Retrolental Fibroplasia:
A Modern Parable
William A. Silverman, M.D.
Greenbrae, California
Copyright © 1980 Grune & Stratton, Inc.
New York, New York
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Chapter 1 – A New Affliction in Premature Infants
Chapter 2 – The Evolvement of Care for Feeble and Prematurely Born Infants
Chapter 3 – The First Decade of RLF
Chapter 4 – The Oxygen Hypothesis
Chapter 5 – The Eye and Oxygen
Chapter 6 – The National Cooperative Study
Chapter 7 – Oxygen Treatment Practices in Premature Infant Care
Chapter 8 – The Consequences of Oxygen Restriction
Chapter 9 – The Determinative Era of Oxygen Treatment
Chapter 10 – Medical Inflation
Chapter 11 – The Price of Progress
Chapter 12 – Progress in a Groove
Chapter 13 – The Experimental Method in Clinical Studies of Children
Chapter 14 – The Future for Clinical Studies Involving American Children
Appendix A – “Causes” of RLF (1942-1952) (PDF file will open in a separate tab or window)
Appendix B – Cooperative Study of RLF (1953-1954) Coordination Committee
Appendix C – Cooperative Study of RLF (1953-1954) Cooperating Hospitals
Appendix D – Methodological Standards for Randomized Clinical Trials
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