Aiming to increase birth weight: A randomised trial of pre-pregnancy information, advice and counselling in inner-urban Melbourne

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lumley, Judith ^a   Donohue, Lisa ^b,c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Western Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH STATUS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFESTYLE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MIDWIFE; NURSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL DEATH; PREMATURE LABOR; PREPREGNANCY CARE; PUERPERIUM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RUBELLA; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTERVENTION STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; NEWBORN; NURSE MIDWIFE; PARITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LIFE STYLE; NURSE MIDWIVES; PARITY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POSTNATAL CARE; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VICTORIA; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 33845734731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-299     Document Type: Article

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