Effects of repeated prenatal ultrasound examinations on childhood outcome up to 8 years of age: Follow-up of a randomised controlled trial

Lancet

Volumn 364, Issue 9450, 2004, Pages 2038-2044

  Newnham, John P ^a,d   Doherty, Dorota A ^a   Kendall, Garth E ^b   Zubrick, Stephen R ^b   Landau, Louis L ^c   Stanley, Fiona J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOTHER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPEECH; UMBILICAL ARTERY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 9944219613     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17516-8     Document Type: Article

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