Home uterine activity monitoring in the prevention of very low birth weight

Public Health Reports

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 433-439

  Kempe, Allison ^a,b,c,h   Sachs, Benjamin P ^d,e   Ricciotti, Hope ^d,e   Sobol, Arthur M ^f   Wise, Paul H ^g  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Dyson Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; UTERINE MONITORING;

EID: 0030864729     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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