Identifying multiple gestation groups using state-level birth and fetal death certificate data

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 225-228

  Lazar, Jane ^a,d   Kotelchuck, Milton ^a   Nannini, Angela ^b,c   Barger, Mary ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Informatics; Reproductive health; Research methodology; Twins

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BIRTH RATE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS OUTCOME; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TRIPLETS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL AGE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWIN PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BIRTH CERTIFICATES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL AUDIT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE;

EID: 33745161348     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-005-0043-1     Document Type: Article

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