A core outcome set for evaluation of interventions to prevent preterm birth

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 49-58

  Van't Hooft, Janneke ^a   Duffy, James M N ^b   Daly, Mandy ^b   Williamson, Paula R ^b   Meher, Shireen ^b   Thom, Elizabeth ^b   Saade, George R ^b   Alfirevic, Zarko ^b   Mol, Benwillem J ^b   Khan, Khalid S ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Irish Neonatal Health Alliance   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSENSUS; CONSULTATION; DELPHI STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CHILD HEALTH CARE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL INFECTION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; MIDWIFE; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEONATOLOGIST; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OBSTETRICIAN; PATIENT HARM; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCIENTIST; SOCIETY; ADULT; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURE BIRTH; STANDARDS;

ADULT; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONSENSUS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREMATURE BIRTH; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 84952720384     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000001195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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