Accuracy and Reliability of Maternal Recall of Infant Birth Weight Among Older Women

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 429-431

  Catov, Janet M ^a   Newman, Anne B ^a   Kelsey, Sheryl F ^a   Roberts, James M ^a   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim C ^a   Garcia, Melissa ^a   Ayonayon, Hilsa N ^a   Tylavsky, Francis ^a   Ness, Roberta B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Recall; Reproducibility of Results; Reproductive History

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RELIABILITY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MOTHERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33646728170     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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