To customise or not to customise: That is the question

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-19

  Resnik, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; ETHNICITY; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NOTE; REFERENCE VALUE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78650110506     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2010.01156.x     Document Type: Note

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