Validity of New Ballard Score until 7th day of postnatal life in moderately preterm neonates

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Sasidharan, K ^a   Dutta, S ^a   Narang, A ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEW BALLARD SCORE; NEWBORN; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; GENITALIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN;

EID: 58349087662     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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