A simple clinical formula for predicting fetal weight in labour at term - Derivation and validation

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 457-460

  Buchmann, Eckhart ^a   Tlale, Karabo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LABOR; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MACROSOMIA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NULLIPARA; PREDICTION; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPHYSIS FUNDAL HEIGHT; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS FUNDUS HEIGHT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 70049111037     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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