The fetuses-at-risk approach: Clarification of semantic and conceptual misapprehension

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Joseph, K S ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FETUS; FETUS RISK; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NOMENCLATURE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURE LABOR; PROGNOSIS; SEMANTICS; STILLBIRTH; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CAUSALITY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STILLBIRTH; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY;

EID: 42249109219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-8-11     Document Type: Article

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