Evaluation of interobserver agreement of cardiotocograms

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-37

  Bernardes, J ^a   Costa Pereira, A ^b   Ayres De Campos, D ^a   Van Geijn, H P ^c   Pereira Leite, L ^a  

^a University of Porto   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computerized analysis; Fetal heart rate; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MUSCLE TONE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

EID: 0031011524     PISSN: 00207292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7292(97)02846-4     Document Type: Article

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