Clinical estimation of fetal weight: Is accuracy acquired with professional experience?

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 321-324

  Levin, Ishai ^a   Gamzu, Ronni ^a   Buchman, Vladimir ^a   Skornick Rapaport, Avital ^a   Pauzner, David ^a   Lessing, Joseph B ^a   Almog, Benny ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fetal weight estimation; Professional experience

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMNIOTOMY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; DELIVERY ROOM; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABOR STAGE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MIDWIFE; OBSTETRICIAN; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; WORK EXPERIENCE;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAVIDITY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MIDWIFERY; OBSTETRICS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 79959324413     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323149     Document Type: Article

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