Late preterm birth and neonatal outcome: Is 37 weeks' gestation a threshold level or a road marker on the highway of perinatal risk?

Birth

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-171

  Kirby, Russell S ^a   Wingate, Martha S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; PREMATURITY; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREMATURE BIRTH;

EID: 77952503237     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: 1523536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.2010.00399.x     Document Type: Note

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