A customised birthweight centile calculator developed for a New Zealand population

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 428-431

  McCowan, Lesley ^a   Stewart, Alistair W ^a   Francis, Andre ^b   Gardosi, Jason ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b West Midlands Perinatal Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Customised; New Zealand birthweight centiles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CALCULATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PARITY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 8444246313     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2004.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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