Numerical fetal heart rate analysis: Nomograms, minimal duration of recording and intrafetal consistency

Prenatal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 314-322

  Nijhuis, I J M ^a   Ten Hof, J ^a   Mulder, E J H ^a   Nijhuis, J G ^e   Narayan, H ^b,c   Taylor, D J ^b,c   Westers, P ^d   Visser, G H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e Utrecht University Hospital ^*

Author keywords

Fetal heart rate; Fetal heart rate variation; Human fetus; Intrafetal consistency; Longitudinal design; Multilevel analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444463193     PISSN: 13598635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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