Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 3 , Pages 167-175 , May 2009

Health Status and Birth Outcomes Among Pregnant Women in Substance Abuse Treatment

  • Benita J. Walton-Moss, DNS, FNP-BC

      Affiliations

    • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Benita J. Walton-Moss, DNS, FNP-BC, Johns Hopkins University, 525 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205; Phone: 410-955-1290; fax: 410-502-5481.
    • ,
  • Linda Comer McIntosh, PhD, RN, LPC

      Affiliations

    • Western Carolina University, Candler, North Carolina
    • ,
  • Jessica Conrad, MSN, FNP-BC

      Affiliations

    • Harford County Health Department, Bel Air, Maryland
    • ,
  • Erika Kiefer, BSN, RN

      Affiliations

    • San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, Emeryville, California

Received 26 April 2008 ,Revised 18 February 2009 ,Accepted 19 February 2009.

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 Funded by National Institutes of Health National Institute on Nursing Research, Center for Health Disparities Research, NR P20NR008375, Principal Investigator, Fannie Gaston-Johannson, PhD, RN, FAAN.

PII: S1049-3867(09)00020-6

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2009.02.003

Women's Health Issues
Volume 19, Issue 3 , Pages 167-175 , May 2009

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