What is the relationship between the universal use of ultrasound, the rate of detection of twins, and outcome differences?

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-77

  Chasen, Stephen T ^a,b   Chervenak, Frank A ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TWIN PREGNANCY; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TWINS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TWINS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032011550     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-199803000-00012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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