Assessment of gestational age using birth certificate data compared with medical record data

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 313-321

  Emery III, E Stanley ^a   Eaton, Abby ^b   Grether, Judith K ^c,e   Nelson, Karin B ^d  

^a Department of Neurology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c California Birth Defects MP   (United States)

^d National Institute of Neurological Disorders   (United States)

^e California Birth Defects Monitoring Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMATURITY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 0031396927     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1997.tb00009.x     Document Type: Article

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