Controlled trial of fundal height measurement plotted on customised antenatal growth charts

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 309-317

  Gardosi, Jason ^a   Francis, Andre ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDWIFE; NORMAL HUMAN; PALPATION; PARITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLICY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERUS;

ADULT; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERUS;

EID: 0033030224     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1999.tb08267.x     Document Type: Article

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