Do Customized Birth Weight Charts Add Anything but Complexity to the Assessment of Fetal Growth?

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 107-109

  Hutcheon, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PARITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STILLBIRTH; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; NOTE;

FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84899145675     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(15)30652-6     Document Type: Editorial

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