The effect of gestational age errors and their correction in interpreting population trends in fetal growth and gestational age-specific mortality

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 306-311

  Platt, Robert W ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036667806     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/sper.2002.34768     Document Type: Article

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