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Measuring newborn foot length to identify small babies in need of extra care: a cross sectional hospital based study with community follow-up in Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Neonatal mortality because of low birth weight or prematurity remains high in many developing country settings. This research aimed to estimate the sensitivity and specificity, and the positive and negative predictive values of newborn foot length to identify babies who are low birth wei...
Autores principales: | Marchant, Tanya, Jaribu, Jennie, Penfold, Suzanne, Tanner, Marcel, Schellenberg, Joanna Armstrong |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2975655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20959008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-624 |
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